text: [[quoteright:300:[[{{Franchise/Gundam}} http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/colony_drop.png]]]][[caption-width-right:300: Here comes the neighborhood.]]->'''Shepard:''' I'm surprised you'd mention [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking vandalism in that bunch]].\\'''Jack:''' That's what the hanar call it when you drop that space station I mentioned onto one of their moons and make a new crater. Heh. They ''really'' liked that moon.-->-- ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''One of the most dramatic ways to try and bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. Put simply, just set any sufficiently large object on a course toward the Earth, and make sure you're off-world when it hits. [[ThanatosGambit Or not, if you don't care about surviving]] it or you're already going to be dead when it happens.The sky literally falling has a way of pushing the story quickly past the GodzillaThreshold. It most likely will require AppliedPhlebotinum to stop, or a large amount of firepower, thus it's also one of the few cases where the NuclearOption is [[NuclearWeaponsTaboo acceptable]].Most often done with asteroids, but [[Franchise/{{Gundam}} very large space colonies]] often show up, too, and provide the added drama of allowing both populations to witness their imminent doom.If this is done deliberately by a villain, he will usually warn the world in advance ([[DoNotAdjustYourSet through their TV sets]]), so as to give the good guys time to avert it.A subtrope of OrbitalBombardment that often results in an EarthShatteringKaboom. Those who happen to be at ground zero are [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill especially screwed]]. Even a successfully halted colony drop can be the source of an InferredHolocaust.Not to be confused with a "Galaxy Drop" from ''PlanetSide'', where the dangerous payload is merely a platoon of [[DropPod armed troopers and vehicles]] dropped from a fleet of [[DropShip Galaxy transports]].----!!Examples[[foldercontrol]]!!Space Colony, Space Station, various assorted artificial Space Stuff[[folder:Anime & Manga]]* The TropeNamer is ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'': dropping large objects ranging from space colonies to asteroids to battlestations is a favorite tactic of the series, though usually unsuccessful. The only way they avoid an InferredHolocaust is by making it ''explicit'', though rarely past class 0 on [[ApocalypseHow the scale]].** In [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam the original series]], Zeon dropped one of Earth's space colonies during the BackStory "Operation British" in an attempt to destroy the [[TheFederation Earth Federation's]] [[ElaborateUndergroundBase nuke-proof headquarters]]. The colony breaks up before impact and misses its intended target, instead completely annihilating Sydney[[LondonEnglandSyndrome , Australia]] ([[YouFailGeographyForever which in the picture looks suspiciously like New York]]) and generally making a mess of things. ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory Gundam 0083]]'' actually shows the crater left by the drop, making clear that the explosion was equal to about 60,000 MT, and the SegaDreamcast game ''Rise from the Ashes'' drives the point home by featuring the continent of Australia (where the game takes place) on [[http://gamesdbase.com/Media/SYSTEM/Sega_Dreamcast/Title/big/Gundam_Side_Story_0079-_Rise_From_the_Ashes_-_1999_-_Bandai.jpg the title screen]] with what looks like a ''bite'' taken out of it where Sydney (as well as Canberra and a quarter of New South Wales) used to be. The ''Origins'' manga went on to explain that between the impacts proper and the environmental aftermath, the population of Earth on Impact + 1 month was ''half'' of what it was before the drop. If the colony hadn't broken into three pieces before impact (With one piece breaking up further during reentry), it probably would have been ''worse''.** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'' had a bit of a variation, in that the villains tried to colony-drop a city on the Moon rather than on Earth. Fortunately, the colony was diverted, and, this being the Moon, the environmental aftereffects were nonexistent (by virtue of there not being an environment to ruin).** Other series in the UC timeline continue the tradition; there are colony drops in ''Gundam 0083'', ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Gundam ZZ]]'', and ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack Char's Counterattack]]''. Effects differ from the destruction of a city to making the entire planet uninhabitable -- happily, that last one is prevented.*** 0083's entire story revolves around the heroes trying to prevent a colony from being dropped on North America. [[spoiler: They fail.]]** ''[[Anime/AfterWarGundamX Gundam X]]'' is an AlternateUniverse, set on a [[AfterTheEnd near-Class 3a ruined Earth]] that's been the victim of a ''whole bunch'' of colony drops.** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Gundam Wing]]'' ends with Heero preventing a colony drop.*** In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWingEndlessWaltz'', it is revealed that actual plan for the Gundam pilots was to conquer Earth after they sent a colony drop first. Thankfully, their supervisors and the pilots themselves (except one, who [[spoiler:was [[EvenMooksHaveLovedOnes killed by a technician that had family on Earth]] and was quickly replaced by another unnamed technician - the man whom we know as Trowa Barton]]) didn't feel like going along with this, and deserted.** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny Gundam SEED Destiny]]'', as well as the prologue of [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedCE73Stargazer Stargazer]] features the remains of a previously destroyed space colony being sent towards the planet. It is mostly destroyed in orbit, but fragments of the wreckage still make their way through the atmosphere and cause massive casualties.** A variation occurs in season 2 of ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Gundam 00]]'', when the A-LAWS [[spoiler:[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVFgWqFWLBU shoot down the African space elevator because it had been taken over by an anti-A-LAWS military faction, in the process killing most of the 60,000 civilians inside and causing it to crash down to Earth in pieces]]]].** Not a colony, but the Downes battle station in ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamAge Gundam AGE]]'' almost causes a similar effect before being destroyed.** In ''Anime/TurnAGundam'' this happens due to collateral damage knocking an abandoned asteroid colony out of ''lunar'' orbit, and Loran has to prevent it from smashing into the moon's capital city. Loran stops it [[spoiler:with the nuclear warheads he'd been safeguarding]].* Parodied in ''Anime/ExcelSaga'': at the end of the SpaceOpera spoof, the evil puchuu faction tries to ram the Earth with their giant mothership. The good puchuus manage to destroy most of it, then when they learn a remaining piece will still devastate the CityOfAdventure on impact, declare it acceptable losses and leave as the Puchuu-shaped mushroom cloud rises over Fukuo-[[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed excuse me]], "F City." (The next episode is a parody of ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' that turns quite unexpectedly, and quite effectively, [[MoodWhiplash serious]] in the last third).* ''Anime/BattleProgrammerShirase''[='=]s main character Akira has a 'special attack' where he drops three decommissioned Russian satellites in a row, insuring that the last makes it intact through the atmosphere on the target of his choice.* The Andromeda Flow Country from ''Manga/GetterRobo'' attempt this with their enormous space battleship, in a last-ditch attempt to stop humanity's use of Getter Rays. The favor gets returned later on by the Getter Emperor, a HumongousMecha so large that it crushes the AFC's planets by ''flying into them''.* Leopard, the MasterComputer running a space colony in ''SoraWoKakeruShoujo'', spirals downward into despair after he can't fire his WaveMotionGun and almost colony drops himself into the Earth. He's pulled out of it just in time.** Later parodied when Nerval's battle body wraps around Leopard's colony, yells out "[[CallingYourAttacks COLONY DROP!!]]", and suplexs him into the lunar surface.* In ''TransformersVictory'', in a final, desperate effort to get revenge on Victory Saber, Deathsaurus attempts to ram his space fortress into Earth, killing everybody. [[spoiler:He fails]].* In the second ''GhostInTheShell'' series, a rare positive [[spoiler:if bittersweet]] example of this trope: [[spoiler:The Tachikoma drop dozens of satellites, including the one containing their AI, into Earth's atmosphere in order to intercept a nuclear missile aimed at Dejima.]]* In {{Planetes}}, terrorists plot to sabotage the interplanetary spaceship in lunar orbit and crash it into Luna City. [[spoiler:They call it off after the government gives concessions, but just barely.]][[/folder]][[folder:Comic Books]]* In the ''Franchise/{{Star Wars|Expanded Universe}}: Infinities'' series WhatIf version of ''A New Hope'' where Luke failed to destroy the Death Star, years later Yoda ends up taking control of it and sets it to crash into Palpatine's palace on Coruscant, putting an end to the Empire and leaving Coruscant... broken.* In one of the earliest AlienVsPredator crossover comics (later adapted into a novel), a small backwater colony gets completely infested with aliens. After the few surviving colonists evacuate to a safe distance, administrator [[{{Badass}} Machiko Noguchi]] heads into the heart of the alien hive with a Predator ally and programs the orbiting cargo ship to crash into the colony.[[/folder]][[folder:Fan Works]]* ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' has Galaxoid accidentally sending a satellite down to Earth. It's PlayedForLaughs.* Happens in the ''Series/BabylonFive'' fanfic ''FanFic/TheDilgarWar'' twice, first when the Dilgar use the wreckage of enemy ships as munitions for their mass drivers (that usually fire small asteroids and other rocks) to bomb the planet they were destroying trying to defend (it's implied to be a standard procedure, partly because, as long as you don't want some specific after-effects, it's as effective as rocks, faster and doesn't use the fuel needed to actually gather the rocks, and partly because the Dilgar appreciate the {{Irony}} and love to KickTheDog), and then, when Jha'dur decides to [[spoiler: destroy Mitoc and, after having it nuked and hit with mass driver fire and the weapons of the orbital defences, has the orbits of the defensive satellites and starbase degraded so they'll fall on the planet in a few days]].[[/folder]][[folder:Literature]]* In the ''Literature/ChungKuo'' series by David Wingrove, Earth has seven continent spanning cities and a combined population of 38 billion people. This necessitates large orbiting stations to grow food. One of these falls from orbit and impacts North America causing a hole in the city the size of the Great Lakes, the death of the Emperor of North America as he tries to flee a rioting populace, and a civil war for the next 20 years. It's possible 2 billion people died.** The ''Chung Kuo'' series has this a lot. A storm killed 250,000 people and the governement managed to keep it quiet. A fire in part of the city killed 500,000, and half the Earth's population is killed at one point. The European 'Civil War' killed hundreds of millions, and it can only be imagined how many died in Africa and Asia when the Warlords took over.* In Bruno Schulz's story, [[http://www.schulzian.net/translation/uncollected/comet1.htm "The Comet"]], global disaster is averted because [[spoiler: the comet becomes a sensation which subsequently goes out of fashion.]]* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': In order to kill Duke Paolo Ortega, both in retaliation for an offscreen attack in the previous book and because he [[spoiler: cheated]] in his duel against Harry before running his cowardly ass away, Harry's old mentor [[spoiler: and grandfather]] Ebenezar [=McCoy=] makes sure the vampire gets what's coming to him. [[spoiler:'''By dropping an old Soviet satellite out of orbit straight onto Ortega's hometown, right where he was healing'''. Needless to say, there were no survivors.]]** It's not the first time, either. [[spoiler:TheTunguskaEvent? Yeah, that was him.]]** A little context. The Duke's home had all sorts of magical protection. No one could get in or out, and trying to use magic to hurt him or storm the castle would not work. Unfortunately for the Duke, gravity is not magic.* The ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' novel ''Chains of Command'' featured the Enterprise finding a number of planets that had been destroyed when a powerful alien race fired smaller (moon-sized) celestial bodies at high speed.* Creator/PeterFHamilton's mighty ''NightsDawnTrilogy'' also features this, when villain Quinn Dexter forces the orbiting dozen or so asteroid habitats circling the planet Nyvan to crash into the planet, wiping out the half-billion or so inhabitants. He later plans to do this to Earth with its much bigger orbital network of asteroid settlements and its population of 39 billion, but is distracted by another plan and pursues that instead.* Creator/IsaacAsimov may have originated a cheap way to terraform nearly waterless Mars; adjust cometary trajectories slightly and bombard the planet with big balls of dirty ice. * In Kim Stanley Robinson's ''Literature/RedMarsTrilogy'', Mars is being colonized and populated even BEFORE the cometary bombardment ceases, requiring some very important Travel Advisories. Also in Robinson's trilogy, when the [[spoiler:Space Elevator is destroyed, it falls and [[CrazyAwesome wraps around the planet several times]].]]* In the [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Warhammer 40k]] novel ''[[Literature/SoulDrinkers The Bleeding Chalice]]'', [[spoiler:an Imperial Battleship possessed by a Chaos Plague Lord (or something like that...) is dropped on a planet. Said ship exploded on entering the atmosphere, resulting in not only a rain of debris, but the first ever Airdrop ZombieApocalypse.]]* ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse''** ''ComicBook/XWingSeries'': Played with twice, using the ''Executor''-class star dreadnaught ''Lusankya''.*** {{Inverted|Trope}} in ''The Krytos Trap'', where the ''Lusankya'' [[spoiler: buried under the surface of Coruscant blasts its way out from under the city, causing '''massive''' destruction.]]*** {{Defied|Trope}} in ''The Bacta War'' when the captain of the ''Lusankya'' threatens to crash it into the planet Thyferra rather than surrender his vessel. [[spoiler:Instead, his first officer shoots him and surrenders to the Rogues.]]** It's then played straight during [[spoiler:the fall of Coruscant]] in ''[[Literature/NewJediOrder Star by Star]]'', when the Yuuzhan Vong bombard [[spoiler:Coruscant]] with its own orbital defense stations.* Used as a tactic by [[BrainInAJar Titan]] Agamemnon in ''Literature/LegendsOfDune]]'' during the invasion of Geidi Prime. He sends a cruiser on a collision course for a [[DeflectorShield scrambler field]] emitter that is keeping the [[RobotWar Thinking Machines]] from invading. The sheet kinetic force of the fall destroys a large part of the capital city.* In Frank Herbert's ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'' starships called 'crushers', which are meant to be deliberately crashed onto a planetary surface to destroy a city/installation/military formation, are employed* Creator/AllenSteele's '[[Literature/{{Coyote}} Coyote Rising]]' has the colonists employing a Colony Drop [[spoiler:in the form of the deliberate de-orbiting of the starship Alabama onto the main base of the bad guys, destroying most of their forces in the process.]]* In ''[[Literature/TheEschatonSeries Iron Sunrise]]'' by Creator/CharlesStross the second strike ship (accelerates to sublight speed and and rains DeathFromAbove upon target) is set on course to smash into enemy planet after it's home system is [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroyed by superweapon]].* Done in Creator/DavidWeber's ''Literature/HonorHarrington'', when a three hundred thousand ton chunk of an orbital shipyard wipes out a fair-sized city by landing almost directly on top of it, to the tune of several million casualties. Though the object of the attack was to destroy the station, and the damage to the planet was just collateral damage/a bonus.** Also an oft-DiscussedTrope. Orbital bombardment of a populated planet is referred to as [[ShoutOut The Heinlen Maneuver]], and the deliberate and unprovoked performing of such is considered one of the [[ThisIsUnforgivable few easy ways]] to provoke [[AwakeningTheSleepingGiant The Solarian League]] into open war.* Creator/JamesBlish has the rogue city known as Interstellar Master Traders do this with a flying city in ''[[Literature/CitiesInFlight Earthman Come Home]]''.* ''Literature/AlexRider'': The villain of "Ark Angel" plans to set off a bomb on the titular space station, which has gone massively over-budget while still in construction. Not content with space-age insurance fraud, he wants to time the explosion so the station will land in Washington, destroying all the government's evidence of his ''other'' criminal activities.* In the ''Literature/ChanurSaga'' a ship coming into a system out of {{Hyperspace}} is travelling at a very high fraction of the speed of light. In theory, it's possible for a ship to hop out of hyperspace, drop off an asteroid so that it's on a collision course for an inhabited world, and the hop back into hyperspace. Since the asteroid will itself being travelling at a very high fraction of light-speed, not only is it impossible to stop, it doesn't even need to be very big to cause massive amounts of destruction.\\\\This form of Colony Drop was never used in the series, but one of the antagonists did threaten its use.* In the Warhammer 40,000 novel ''Talon of Horus'', [[spoiler:Iskandar Khayon telekinetically tows the ''Tlaloc'' behind ''Vengeful Spirit'' to throw it at the Canticle City on Harmony, destroying the Emperor's Children's fortress and its cloning facilities]].* ''Literature/{{Otherland}}'': At the climax of the series, the AI running the Otherland network tricks the heroes into letting it escape its virtual imprisonment. Its [[DrivenToSuicide first and final action]] is to attempt to [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters destroy its tormentors]] by activating its self-destruct sequence, which in this case means [[spoiler:sending the satellite that houses its "brain" plummeting to Earth, aimed directly at the headquarters of J Corp. The resulting impact turns a mile high corporate tower into a smoking crater in the Louisiana swamp]].[[/folder]][[folder:Live Action TV]]* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story ''Revenge of the Cybermen'', the Cybermen [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin (obviously)]] make a second attempt to destroy Voga by crashing the Nerva beacon, laden with Cyberbombs, into the planet. The Doctor and Sarah, who they've left on board, prevent this from happening.** The Cybermen did the same thing again in ''Earthshock'' when they tried to crash a massive transport ship into future Earth to stop an anti-Cybermen conference. They succeeded. Sort of. Adric inadvertently saves the planet by fiddling with the controls so the thing goes back in time to the time of dinosaurs.** And in the 2007 Christmas special "Voyage of the Damned", when Max Capricorn attempts to make the space Titanic crash into Earth. His motivation? [[spoiler: To drive his former company that he was forced out of bankrupt and get its current owners arrested for exterminating humanity.]] It narrowly misses [[spoiler: Buckingham Palace]].** In the following season, alternative universe where Donna didn't turn Left, [[spoiler: it actually hit London, obliterating it, turning the UK into a third world country over night, forcing martial law, forced housing, and the eventual nazi-ish removal of foreigners to concentration camps]]* An episode of ''{{Series/Eureka}}'' has the accumulated space junk accidentally forming into this level of a threat. Not so much a colony drop, but space junk drop to make it implicit to only the title town.** In season 3, an unidentified ship is on course for Earth and compelling various residents of the town to assemble towers of unknown purpose. The towers are first assumed to be a weapon, but it's eventually discovered that they're in fact a high-tech safety net meant to stop the ship from hitting Eureka hard enough to turn the town into a crater.* Ending of ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy''. The BigBad has wrecked the colony, so what will she do now? Drop the dome on the survivors. Oddly, the impact was considered not that dangerous if it didn't directly hit the camp, so having the Megazord redirecting it was enough to avoid carnage (the Megazord is tiny when compared to the colony, but hey, they already did it in ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'' with an asteroid).* In a small-scale variant, Georgia Lass from ''DeadLikeMe'' was killed by a plummeting toilet seat that fell from the decommissioned ''Mir'' space station.[[/folder]][[folder:Roleplay]]* ''Roleplay/DestroyTheGodmodder'': The [=UOSS=] was a gigantic spaceship summoned in the second thread. When it was destroyed, its chassis fell onto the Battlefield, killing almost everyone on it.[[/folder]][[folder:Tabletop Games]]* The Azrael from ''{{GURPS}}: Spaceships'' uses a ramscoop to reach half the speed of light on its trip to the target. On impact it has the effect of 40 million megatons of TNT.[[/folder]][[folder:Video Games]]* In the third person shooter/strategy PS3 game ''{{Starhawk}}'', players call self-assembling structures down from orbiting ships. It's a common strategy to use both these structures and your own respawn pod to OHKO the enemy upon impact, even before the drop constructs itself into a turret or beam cannon (or whatever you happened to call down).* In the arcade game Cybattler, what appears to be the remains of some of the Moon have been used to create a Orbital Ring System of connecting chunks. At the end of the first level, one of the largest chunks seems to make planetfall.* Played with like Gundam in the rare (but very fun) PCEngine shooter Spriggan Mark 2* ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'' gives us the fall of Solaris. People, when the counterweight/city on the other end of an orbital elevator snaps like a twig, don't be under it when it hits, tends to leave holes in continents.* ''[[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic Adventure 2]]'' had the Space Colony ARK dropped. Dr. Eggman's grandfather, professor Gerald Robotnik, locked away and shunned by the public for his frightening expiriments, exacts revenge in spirit by programming the colony to crash into Earth. The presence of the gargantuan [[EldritchAbomination Biolizard]] makes matter ''far'' worse, as it tries to fuse with the colony and forcibly drag it down into the planet. After both Sonic and Shadow power up to their super forms, the duo ultimately slays Biolizard, but with the colony swiftly entering Earth's atmosphere, they have only seconds to stop an imminent doomsday. Sonic's solution to stopping this is to use [[MassTeleportation Chaos Control]] to send it back into orbit. [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice Shadow, on the other hand... does the unthinkable.]]]]* ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'': Albedo attempts to drop the Proto Merkabah on Second Miltia, apparently primarily [[ForTheEvulz for his own entertainment]]. Not even a hint of an InferredHolocaust here.* At the end of the original version of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', the Garlean Empire tries to drop the moon of Dalamud on Eorzea. In a twist it didn't actually impact the surface, but instead exploded and released the Elder Primal Bahamut imprisoned within, whereupon it tore Eorzea a new one.** So why isn't this part of the "Moons" category? Because [[spoiler: [[InterfaceSpoiler Dalamud was never actually a natural moon]] - it was a colossal satellite constructed by the Allagan Empire (who else?) to harness Bahamut's aether as a power source for Syrcus Tower. Once it was brought down, it no longer supplied energy to the tower, and after several years, the tower's stasis field wore down, reawakening the last Allagan Emperor, Xande, and causing a big, brand new problem for Eorzea.]]* In ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'', the Soviets get a special power that dumps increasingly larger orbital satellites at an enemy location. The highest level ''drops the Mir space station''. It's [[SlapOnTheWristNuke surprisingly impotent for an object that size, though]].** An ability also allows the same Soviet satellite to magnetically pick up vehicles and add them to the satellite barrage the next time one chooses to use it. Hilariously fun if you picked up aircraft carriers and battleships beforehand and chucked them at something.** Even more hilarious once you find out the magnetic beam works on ''Tesla Troopers''. Supplementing the space station with [[CherryTapping powered armored soldiers]] is CrowningMomentOfFunny.** Early in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberiumWars'' the Philadelphia is destroyed, resulting in massive chaos across the globe as communications are offline (the Philadelphia was the primary GDI command hub) and causing massive collateral damage as the station's remains fell to earth.* ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration'': [[spoiler: Stern Regusseur was the colony (Merged with Neviim)]] and ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsJudgment'' [[spoiler: Gu-Landon was to use the Moon which was a spaceship covered in debris.]] The green Earth in ''Third VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsZ: Tengoku-hen'' is [[spoiler:turned into Douzemille (everyone on it is evacuated to the blue Earth)]] and used by [[spoiler:Dix Neuf in an event battle sequence and stopped by Nono like in the show, but one of the reasons is because she was trying to protect the message for Noriko and Kazumi, and she activates it there]].* ''VideoGame/MegaManX5'' has Space Station Eurasia hurtling towards Earth. It crashing doesn't end the game. Even though the Hunter canonically destroyed it, the leftover debris still has an adverse effect on the planet.** ''VideoGame/MegaManZero 4'' historically referenced the above disaster, while also featuring its own orbital space station, Ragnarok, which also predictably was sent on a collision course with Earth. [[spoiler:Failure to detonate the station's core, taking out the station, the BigBad, and ''yourself'' in the process does yield a game over however]].* The finale of ''VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders: Dolores i'' had the BigBad of the series, [[spoiler:a bitter and psychotic Radam Lavans]], try to topple the Earth's orbital elevator, which would cause it to smack the earth like a gigantic slap bracelet. It takes a herculean effort to stop it, [[spoiler:requiring the near-sacrifice of Dolores and the actual sacrifice of Radam, his Orbital Frame, [[EvilCounterpart Hathor]], and several mass-produced Orbital Frames]], but things turn out alright.* At the end of ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'', [[spoiler:The entire BSL research station crashes into the planet [=SR388=], destroying it. And you ''intentionally caused'' it. At least the planet contains no sapient life, Samus having killed it all already in ''VideoGame/MetroidIIReturnOfSamus'', and everyone on the station was dead.]]** In ''Metroid Prime 3'', Samus needs to disable a shield around a Leviathan on Elysia. Since she can't destroy the shield generator, she loads a thermonuclear bomb onto part of Skytown and drops it on the shield, destroying it instead. And it is [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]].* This is a major plot point of ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarII'', where the impact of the Gaira prison satellite results in the total disintegration of Palm (a.k.a. Palma or Parma, [[InconsistentDub depending on who you ask]]), one of the solar system's three planets. This event is [[AlternateUniverse retold]] in ''Phantasy Star Universe: Ambition of the Illuminus'', when at the end of Episode 2, the Guardians Colony is knocked from its orbit and crashes into the planet Parum below, causing quite a bit of local devastation but certainly nowhere near PSII's level.* The relatively unheard of ''VideoGame/AssaultSuitsValken'', (Released as ''Cybernator'' outside Japan) for the SNES had a colony being thrust into earth as scorched earth policy. You are left to destroy the thrusters before the colony enters the atmosphere while dodging the powerful and invulnerable boss mech.* ''Millenium 2.2'' had a lunar colony try to rebuild Earth after it was hit by a 2.2 trillion ton asteroid.* In ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'', on the last level [[spoiler:the marker activates, disabling gravity tethers holding a chunk of the planet in space with the Ishimura. This causes the chunk to crash down to the planet's surface, wiping out the HiveMind.]]* ''PowerStone 2'' has meteors rain down from the sky and reduces all players' health so low that just tapping someone kills them. This happens when time runs out and initiates sudden death. In sudden death if the players take too long to kill each other, ''[[RocksFallEveryoneDies more meteors rain down and kill everyone]]'', resulting in a draw.* In ''Franchise/MassEffect'', during the Krogan Rebellions the krogan began dropping asteroids and space stations onto turian worlds when the turians intervened on the Citadel's behalf. This just pissed the turians off even more.** Additionally, during the invasion of Shanxi the Turians dropped orbital debris from the space battle in order to break pockets of resistance on the colony's surface.** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', Jack recounts her {{backstory}}, including a time where she crashed a space station upon the Hanar's favorite moon. The Hanar, having niceness as their [[PlanetOfHats racial hat]], refer to this as "Vandalism".** In ''The Arrival'' DLC, Shepard is [[spoiler:[[OutrunTheFireball forced to invoke this trope]] by crashing an asteroid research facility to slow down the Reaper invasion, not into a planet, but a ''mass relay'' which [[SphereOfDestruction goes supernova]], destroying a solar system and killing over 300,000 batarians. S/he's [[WhatTheHellHero told]] afterwards that s/he will have to face trial and a war with the batarians is almost certainly guaranteed.]]** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', whilst on the quarian homeworld, Rannoch, Garrus suggests performing a colony drop to take out the enemy geth. Tali naturally points out what a ''great'' idea it is to reclaim her homeworld by doing something that would make a large part of it ''uninhabitable''.** Additionally, a DLC for the first game involved stopping a group of Batarians from dropping an asteroid on a heavily-populated human colony. This is also the first time players layed eyes on a Batarian. Not a very good first impression (story-wise, they've been in a state of UsefulNotes/ColdWar with the Systems Alliance for a few decades).* In the first ''VideoGame/SystemShock'', SHODAN tries to do this with Citadel Station after the Hacker stopped all of her plans (and backup plans).* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' did this in the first ExpansionPack, with a {{magitek}} dimensional fortress screwing up a small archipelago.* ''VideoGame/BurningRangers'' had this plan as their final chapter, in an [[WellIntentionedExtremist accidental example.]] Some scientist's daughter had an initially incurable disease, and was placed in a special cryogenic stasis aboard a custom-built space station, with scientist scanning his brain in as the station's AI, complete with orders to send her home when a cure is found. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, a combination of years of neglect, [[WellIntentionedExtremist the scientist's overprotective tendencies]], and [[AIIsACrapshoot an unreliable AI]], caused the station to accumulate satellites and other flotsam and jetsam as a shield, ballooning the station's size. When a cure was found, the AI gave the order to send her home, but that order was interpreted to mean "bring her home," i.e. bring the station down to earth. If the orders were followed, it would have destroyed the Earth utterly.]] Either way, [[spoiler:it failed]].* In ''VideoGame/ArmoredCore'' for Answer a group of Mooks attempt this near game start. Later on the [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well Intentioned Extremists]] (and the not so well intentioned) try again. [[spoiler: You have the option of doing this to follow the ''KillEmAll'' story]]* VideoGame/{{Cyberbots}}: In Jin Saotome's story, [[spoiler: the final battle takes place on a satellite weapon as it is sent falling into Earth's atmosphere. Jin's mentor sacrifices himself to keep the satellite from hitting the planet.]]* You can stick lots of explosives on a [[TheBattlestar Baseship]] in the ''VideoGame/SpaceEmpires'' games and send it on a collision course with a planet. It sadly doesn't do quite as much damage as you'd expect.* During the fight with Balder in ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'', after blasting at Bayonetta with a KillSat, he decides to ''drop the satellite itself'' onto her. And at the very end of the game, [[spoiler: Jeanne and Bayonetta team up to destroy Jubileus's body before it crashes into the Earth and destroys it.]]* The {{backstory}} for ''VideoGame/MassiveAssault'' mentions terrorists hijacking long-range shuttles and using them to crash into Earth cities.* The games set in the [[VideoGame/{{X}} X-Universe]] let players build {{space station}}s wherever in a sector they wish. The game mechanic consists of [[RidiculouslyFastConstruction teleporting the station, fully built, out of the cargo hold of your TL-class transport and into its intended position]]. At some point, somebody decided to see what would happen if they built a cheap station ''directly on top of an enemy capital ship''. The tactic proved quite successful and has become fairly widespread among ''X'' fans, under the moniker "station-bombing".** The destruction of the Earth Torus in ''X3: Albion Prelude'' caused millions of tons of debris to rain down on Earth.* This is how Igniz planned to end ''TheKingOfFighters 2001'', by driving the NESTS space station into Southtown. K' dealt with him before that was to happen, though.* ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' Has [[spoiler: The Karma Fortress's head fall to earth, with [[TrueFinalBoss Chakravartin]] taking the rest of the fortress to build his own giant form. The scene is a Shot for Shot redux of [[Franchise/MobileSuitGundam the ORIGINAL colony drop]].]]* In ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'', new colonies are installed by dropping them out of space to begin with, so it is technically possible to use this as a weapon. However, since colonies can only be placed on uninhabited planets, said weapon can only be [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential wielded against poor defenseless animals who are no threat to you and you reap no benefit from killing]].* [[TheIncredibleHulk The Hulk]] has his "Gamma Crush" super move in the ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom'' series where he grabs a meteor from space and send it crashing down into the Earth, while still riding said meteor.[[/folder]][[folder:Web Comics]]* Part of ''TheCyantianChronicles'' back story is a war that was started with cargo shuttles being dropped on a city as a shock tactic. Specifically, Centralis, which happens to be the biggest city and home to the heroes.[[/folder]][[folder:Web Original]]* This is how Sonic's world was destroyed in ''SuperMarioBrosZ'': Mecha Sonic's escape sent Eggman's [[ThatsNoMoon Death Egg]] crashing into the planet.* The Angry Marines, a 4chan chapter of Warhammer40000 marines, not only will do this, their battle barges (with colorful names such as ''Litany of Litany's Litany'' and ''Maximum Fuck'') will ''hit each other'' in their mad scramble to strike the earth.** Please note, the Litany of Litany's Litany and Maximum Fuck were dropped, one after the other, onto a Greater Daemon of Nurgle. [[CrazyAwesome And the Angry Marines aboard may or may not have been rocking out really hard on their hulls when they did so.]][[/folder]][[folder:Western Animation]]* [[TheyKilledKenny Kenny]] from WesternAnimation/SouthPark got squashed by a crashing satellite in the first-season Halloween special.* In the ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' movie, it looked like Numbuh 1 was going to do a heroic version of this with the moon on the captured-by-evil Earth, but it instead just fired the sizable treehouse-ish moonbase, the KND's headquarters. [[spoiler:The villain shrugs it off too, but the [[GambitRoulette real plan]] was to bring the KND's LaserGuidedAmnesia device down to Earth to use on him]].* The fate of Star City in the ''[[WesternAnimation/SuperFriends Galactic Guardians]]'' episode "Escape From Space City", after Darkseid's failed attempt to turn it into a KillSat.* In the final episode of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' (pre-Unlimited), [[spoiler:Batman destroys the hypergate generator by ''piloting the Watchtower'' into it]].[[/folder]][[folder:Real Life]]* Some bits of Skylab actually made it through the atmosphere when the failed space station succumbed to Earth's gravitational pull, although none of the pieces was large enough to cause significant damage. Nowadays, most expiring satellites are given remote-control commands to come apart in small pieces that won't survive reentry, and/or to land in the oceans, so as to avert this trope.** Even more hilarious: some of it fell on Australia, and NASA had to pay a $400 USD fine for littering.*** LifeImitatesArt in this case, as this happened just a couple of months after the ''MobileSuitGundam'' episode depicting a Colony Drop on Sydney, Australia.[[/folder]]!!Asteroids & Comets[[folder:Anime & Manga]]* ''Anime/GallForce'': Earth Chapter has the MARS civ using a device that hurls rocks on the baddies. Funny in that the baddies comment that the previous plan our heros wanted to use, nukes would not have hurt them as bad but now that they figured rocks from space can do almost more destruction w/o the danger of radiation.* When ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' isn't dropping space colonies on Earth, it's usually an asteroid of some sort, culminating in the attempted drop of the Asteroid fortress Axis in ''CharsCounterattack''.** The Shadow-Mirror went with this plan in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAdvance''. In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsCompact'', [[{{Daitarn3}} Don Zauser and Koros]] plan on doing this so mankind is forced into outer space. In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars64'', Neo Zeon do this after the group purges it from its Devil Gundam infection.* Like if the ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' examples listed above were not enough to prove that Creator/YoshiyukiTomino ''loves'' the trope, another series of his features a colony drop: ''Anime/HeavyMetalLGaim'' features Operation Stardust, where LaResistance decided launching hundreds of asteroids around planet Gastogal towards Sveto, TheEmpire's capital city. * At the end of the first ''Anime/SailorMoon'' movie the Promise of the Rose, [[spoiler:after the evil Xenian Flower is destroyed Fiore makes an attempt to crash the asteroid he and the Senshi were fighting on into the Earth. The Senshi are able to stop it with the power of the Silver Crystal, though Sailor Moon dies and has to be brought back to life by the power of Mamoru's kiss combined with Fiore's life force.]]* In ''GaoGaiGar'', the Brain Primeval tries to hit the Earth with a shower of asteroids. When Gai Gai Gar finally defeats it, it makes one last effort by launching an asteroid 10km long at them. [[spoiler:[=ChoRyuJin=] pushes the asteroid back through the portal, and ends up getting sent back to Earth sixty-five million years ago, rock and all, where the rock kills the dinosaurs and [[TheSlowPath ChoRyuJin gets dug up in the present day]]]].* In ''TransformersVictory'', Deathsaurus uses his space fortress to fire a large number of 'meteorite bombs' at Earth.* In ''[[GetterRobo Shin Getter Robo vs. Neo Getter Robo]]'', the Dinosaur Empire uses a satellite that fires asteroids to attack America; Texas Mack saves the day by using its {{BFG}} to shoot the satellite out of orbit.* Although technically not an Asteroid, a major part of the Eighth DragonBallZ movie dealt with this: Paragus intends to lure Prince Vegeta and the rest of the protagonists to the New Planet Vegeta, which is doomed to be destroyed by an immense comet known as Comet Camori with the intention of killing Vegeta out of revenge for his father attempting to execute him and his son. The plan ended up backfiring after his son lost control.* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', [[spoiler:Revived Madara Uchiha]] drops/summons an asteroid on [[spoiler:the Shinobi Alliance army]]. And when it is stopped, ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill he drops another one]]''.* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Gremmy Thoumeaux imagines a meteor into existence to kill Kenpachi and wipe out Seireitei. Kenpachi is [[BloodKnight thrilled]] by this challenge.* In the final arc of ''SamuraiPizzaCats'', The Big Cheese, after being threatened into banishment by Princess Vi, builds a tractor beam that attracts a nearby comet and pulls it towards Earth, threatening to drop it towards the planet if he is not made Emperor of Little Tokyo.* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', [[spoiler:Admiral Fujitora]] is capable of bringing down meteorites using his Devil Fruit ability.* In the first season of ''Franchise/{{Jewelpet}}'', the Jewelpet Alex is brainwashed by the BigBad into summoning an asteroid to destroy Earth. The heroes avert the crisis by [[AbsurdlyHighStakesGame playing "kick the can"]] against the villains.** ''Anime/JewelpetKiraDeco'''s plot is caused by an asteroid shattering the sacred Mirror Ball. Also, the characters frequently have to deal with asteroids threatening Jewel Town, but this is PlayedForLaughs and not relevant to the story for the most part.[[/folder]][[folder:Comic Books]]* In ''GreenLantern Corps'' v2 #13, the [[GeniusLoci living planet]] Mogo intentionally moves into the path of an asteroid to get rid of a [[PlantAliens sentient space-fungus]] that's infected its forests.** Then, in the conclusion of the ''SinestroCorpsWar'', [[spoiler:John Stewart and Guy Gardner get the idea to take the newly recreated Warworld and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesomeComics throw it on top of the goddamn Anti-Monitor]].]]* In ''The Rebels'' (of the ElfQuest universe), a rogue human military executes a very stealthy colony drop on the alien's home planet at the outer rim of the solar system. How stealthy? They've spent twenty years making slow course corrections on the asteroid, just to make sure it won't get detected by spaceship warning systems.* In ''Sigil'' (of Creator/CrossGen), there is a plot by the BigBad (who by that time had been superceeded by a Bigger Bad, however) to ram an asteroid into the humans' capital planet, by equipping said asteroid with a gigantic [[FasterThanLightTravel FTL]] drive. The hero manages to deflect the asteroid [[spoiler: (and save his love, who was on it)]] by sheer force, but the casualties are still great [[spoiler:and we learn that the planet is going to become uninhabitable anyway.]]* In ''ComicBook/AllFallDown'', a giant asteroid, Penumbra, threatens to collide with Earth. [[spoiler: It turns out to be an elaborate hoax.]][[/folder]][[folder:Fan Works]]* ''Fanfic/RedFireRedPlanet'' has an offhand mention that [[ANaziByAnyOtherName the Optimum]] (from ''Literature/StarTrekFederation'') dropped an asteroid on [[MonumentalDamage Mecca]] in 2060.[[/folder]][[folder:Film]]* The speculative documentary ''Film/SuperCometAfterTheImpact'' is all about this trope.* The Japanese live-action movie ''Gorath'' involved a super-dense wandering planet with 4,000 times the mass of Earth; the only way to solve the problem, in the end, was to attach giant engines to Earth and move it out of the way.** The threat of Gorath reappears in ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'' ([[spoiler:faked by the alien invaders]]), as well as a smaller "weaponized" asteroid ([[spoiler:meant mostly as a means to transport Monster X/Ghidorah to Earth]]).* Precisely-aimed meteors were the WeaponOfMassDestruction of the "bugs" in the movie version of ''Film/StarshipTroopers''. Although it's ridiculously implausible that the bugs could hurl rocks over light years of distance on a sane timescale and with any sort of accuracy, an apparently disposable bit of background chatter suggests the rocks were coming from much closer to home. It may have been a natural disaster that the space Nazis used to justify a war against the bugs (or they could have been [[FalseFlagOperation dropping the rocks themselves]]).* ''Film/TheFifthElement'', in which a living ([[UltimateEvil and evil]]) asteroid threatens to impact Earth.* In the [[SoBadItsGood classic]] sci-fi movie ''[[MysteryScienceTheater3000 This Island Earth]]'', the planet Metaluna is bombarded by thousands of meteorites, [[SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay gradually turning it into a radioactive sun]].* ''Film/SeekingAFriendForTheEndOfTheWorld'' takes place in the two weeks leading up to an asteroid impact that will end all life on Earth.* The [[StupidJetpackHitler Moon Nazis]] in ''Film/IronSky'' use space-zeppelins that are dragging asteroids with engines attached. On command, they detach the cables and engage the engines, causing the asteroids to break orbit and fall down at the start of their invasion.* ''Film/TheLastStarfighter'' has the Ko-Dan Armada severely damage Starfighter Command by firing small asteroids at it with a mass driver of some sort.* ''Film/WithoutWarning1994'' begins with three space rocks launched at uninhabited areas of Earth, as an attempt at first contact, by an unseen extraterrestrial presence. Later, three much bigger meteors are launched at Beijing, Moscow, and Washington, D.C. [[spoiler:and are narrowly intercepted, only to be followed shortly by an unstoppable third wave of ''hundreds'' of meteors]].[[/folder]][[folder:Literature]]* In ''Titan'' by StephenBaxter, China ends up causing a minimum Class 3a ApocalypseHow ''by accident'' when they try to capture an asteroid into Earth's orbit, but only succeed in crashing it into Earth and killing everybody...except the crew of the American craft heading to Titan.* In Robert L. Forwards ''Martian Rainbow'', a series of asteroids, connected via extruded diamond, is dropped on Mars for purposes of terraforming, thus creating a hole deep enough to maintain earth-like atmosphere pressure. Furthermore the megalomanic emperor of Earth utilizes a magnetically coupling/decoupling asteroid to threaten Earth.* A rebel faction in the ''Literature/RedMarsTrilogy'' drops a space elevator on Mars which was long enough to circle the planet's equator. Twice. The impact only became more powerful because the higher parts of the elevator picked up speed thanks to gravity and the planet's spin. The rebels also destroyed the Martian moon Phobos to prevent it being used as a weapons platform by Earth's multinationals, which led to humongous fragments of the moon bombarding the planet's equatorial regions, just to add icing to the cake of the space elevator's fall. And they even strapped a bunch of rockets to an asteroid that they'd christened Nemesis and pointed it at Earth just to make a point (although it was easily intercepted and diverted). There's a reason they liked Paul Bunyan folklore on Mars: it's because they did everything ''big''.** They do this a lot during the ''Literature/RedMarsTrilogy'', and not just for war. They drop several icy comets onto Mars in a controlled fashion throughout the books to help bring more volatiles necessary for terraforming.* In the ''Literature/DragonridersOfPern'' series the planet is subject to persistent attacks by quantities of a fungoid that comes from the Oort cloud at the edge of the Pernese system, dragged in by the Red Star, a small planetary body. These threadfalls last for several hours at a time, and come in a pattern of 50 years of this bombardment, followed by 200 years of no attacks. There are two periods where the interval is longer, one of which sets up the original book...* The point of departure in S. M. Stirling's AlternateHistory ''ThePeshawarLancers'' is an asteroid hitting earth in the 19th century, destroying civilization and killing millions.* Niven and Jerry Pournelle wrote ''TheMoteInGodsEye'' with this trope in mind. The newly-discovered planet has been bombarded by asteroids in an uncountable number of wars over the entire history of the aliens. The solar system has reached the point where all the remaining asteroids and comets have been moved to places where they're better used for other things.* In ''Literature/{{Footfall}}'' by JerryPournelle and Creator/LarryNiven, the alien species the Fithp drop an asteroid the size of a Dino Killer in the Indian Ocean, wiping out India and causing global rain showers* The moon-based rebels in the Creator/RobertAHeinlein book ''Literature/TheMoonIsAHarshMistress'' blackmail Earth for independence with moon rocks catapulted from the moon to Earth, resulting in an impact equivalent to a 2 kiloton nuclear bomb. (These are actually the ''good'' guys, waging war against an oppressive government). This sequence is referenced or repeated in many, many space operas. This is also given a ShoutOut in an ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' novel, as the "Heinlein Maneuver".** A minor subversion, in that they don't actually target people--[[spoiler: rather, they mostly target uninhabited areas near large population centers, for intimidation value, and a few military bases. The de facto leader of the Lunar rebels even admits that the whole thing is a bluff: if they used one of their rocks to destroy a major city, the people of Earth would never accept their independence, instead demanding that the lunar colony be exterminated. Nevertheless, a large number of people die in the initial round of bombardment, after [[TooStupidToLive going to scheduled impact sites to observe what the government insists will be harmless events]].]]* In Creator/DavidWeber's ''[[Literature/EmpireFromTheAshes The Armageddon Inheritance]]'', alien invaders on a xenophobic/genocidal crusade try dropping a big rock on Earth. When that is stopped, they decide to go all the way to the top and launch one of Saturn's moons, Iapetus, at Earth in the second attempt.* In Creator/DavidWeber 's [[Literature/HonorHarrington Honorverse]], the hegemonic Solarian League has written the "Eridani Edict" into their constitution, forbidding any variety of mass destruction of civilian targets on pain of them wiping out your empire. Turns out they didn't much like having one of their planets get massacred by [=RKVs=] a few centuries back...** Weber has [[WordOfGod hinted]] that in the event the Solarian League comes unglued, someone else will have to step up to the plate to enforce the Edict, or something like it, since it's just too important for the survival of civilization. He very carefully (and gleefully) did not mention who this might be.** As mentioned a few examples above, indescriminate planetary bombardment with asteroids or [=WMD=]s is called "The Heinlen Maneuver" in-universe. It is also worth mentioning that while it may specify ''orbital'' bombardment, many characters on both sides are shown as being understandably antsy about even ''accidentally'' hitting an inhabited planet with an unlucky shot during a space battle (the same concern, in inverse, has at times forced defensive forces to fight at a disadvantage, unwilling to use defensive platforms in orbit over their own planets first lest they force the enemy to return fire). A sizable part of this is due to the Eridani Edict, in addition to many of the officers on both sides of the conflict being good.* Weber's novel, ''Literature/OutOfTheDark'', has the Shongairi launching several kinetic strikes before, during, and after their invasion of earth. In fact it seems to be their sole advantage over the [[HumansAreWarriors human]] [[MarySue race]].* This trope is best summed up with Jack [=McDevitt=]'s book ''Moonfall''. The dust jacket explains thusly: "A comet is coming. It is going to hit the Moon. And the Moon is going to fall. ON US."* The eponymous ''Newton's Cannon'' in the first book of J. Gregory Keyes' ''Age of Unreason'' series [[spoiler:is actually a comet King Louis XIV's royal alchemists have drawn down from the heavens, without quite realizing the holocaust they are about to unleash]].* The ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' novel ''Chapter War'', by Ben Counter, sees an army of invading Orks use small asteroids (with rockets attached) as conveyance through space. Once they've arrived, they use the same Roks as a crude, yet surprisingly effective, orbital bombardment, devastating the Planetary Defense Force.* Part of the Horvath's initial appearance was dropping kinetic warheads on several major Earth cities, in Creator/JohnRingo's ''[[Literature/TroyRising Live Free or Die]]''.* A favorite human tactic in ''Literature/TheGhostBrigades'' by Creator/JohnScalzi.* In ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'' of ''Franchise/{{Star Wars|Expanded Universe}}'', one of Thrawn's most brilliant plans involves launching lots of ''invisible asteroids'' at the capital world of the Republic. To protect the public and vital installations, the planetary shields were raised, which effectively kept the entire planet under siege long after Thrawn's fleet had left the system. Also Thrawn didn't actually have that many cloaking devices, so he just had the star destroyers fire their gravity catapults without any invisible asteroids loaded, so the Republic had no idea how many asteroids were really out there. So even after the last asteroid had smashed into the shields or detected and destroyed, they would have no way of telling when it would be safe to lower the shields.* This was a favored tactic of the !*!*!, in ''Literature/{{Bolo}} Rising''.* The 2012 novel ''Literature/TheLastPoliceman'' is a police procedural set against an impending asteroid impact. Interestingly, the story (and it's sequel) are about the breakdown of civilization ''before'' the asteroid hits.* Fyodor Berezin's novel ''Ash'' involves Earth waging a nuclear war against its only extrasolar colony (the colony wanted economic independence). By this point, the planet is a radioactive wasteland, but the Earth military (based on the far side of the colony's moon) keeps dropping nukes on it. It turns out that two cities have survived: one underground and one underwater. The underground city has worked for a long time, building thousands of nukes in order to obliterate the lunar base. They finally launch them, but the orbital and lunar defenses manage to eliminate most of them, with the lunar base experiencing relatively minor damage. The Earth forces then realize that the nuclear barrage wasn't the main attack. Some of the missiles were programmed to strike an asteroid in order to cause it to fall on the lunar base. They manage to attach some engines to it and aim it at the planet. Due to a freak coincidence, the asteroid somehow ends up destroying a large chunk of the planet (not just the surface).* The setting of ''Literature/HaloTheColeProtocol'', one of the books in the Halo Extended Universe, is a collection of asteroids - modified to serve as a make-shift colony in the wake of a nearby planet's glassing - known as the Rubble. Late in the novel, the protagonists discover a Covenant attack force on another nearby planet, and must figure out a way to prevent said force from wiping out the Rubble's inhabitants. The solution? Evacuate the population and then drop the asteroid-habitats from orbit.* In the backstory to the ''Literature/StarCarrier'' series the Chinese Hegemony, losing WorldWarWhatever, set three asteroids on a collision course with Earth. Two were diverted at great cost, but the third, dubbed Wormwood, came down in the Atlantic and killed half a billion people. Since then the Terran Confederation has maintained a subfleet of its SpaceNavy called the High Guard that keeps an eye out for Colony Drops and naturally occurring asteroid dangers alike.* ''Literature/ThePriestTheScientistAndTheMeteor'' has the title meteor being ridden and directed by dinosaur ghosts, with the intent of crashing it into Earth. [[spoiler:Because they wanted revenge on humanity for not having shared their ice cream.]]* Done benevolently in ''Utopia''. Deliberately dropping cometary fragments onto the poorly terraformed world of Inferno was used to add water into the ecosystem. Then a researcher gets the idea of dropping a whole comet onto the planet in such a way that the fragments gouge out a channel across an entire continent, making it possible for a polar sea to form as a way of stabilizing the climate.[[/folder]][[folder:Live Action TV]]* A ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode had an evil alien race slowly bombarding another race's colony worlds with giant asteroids, in hopes they'd abandon the colony as unsafe and the evil aliens could simply move right in without a war. Not sure why they wanted a planet covered in craters, though.** There was a ''Star Trek: TNG'' novel that included a planet BUILT to be used as such a weapon, and inhabited by people largely ignorant of this. Once it was set off [[spoiler:Worf shut it down by [[ExplosiveInstrumentation violently destroying the machinery]] that created the wormhole used to deliver it, after complaining about not being allowed to shoot things when he wanted to for the whole book.]]** There was also a ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries TOS]]'' episode with what sounds like essentially the same plot.*** "For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky". Similar but not ''exact'': The ancient, long-lost Fibrini civilization build a generation-ship, Yonada, designed as a traveling planet which would eventually find a new world for their descendants to settle. However, the guidance computer aboard Yonada went off-course, and Yonada itself was doomed to collide with a planet with millions of inhabitants. The Enterprise averted this disaster [[spoiler:AND [=McCoy=]'s premature death by incurable disease]].* Also done in ''Series/StargateSG1'' where an asteroid is found to be hurtling towards the Earth. Cue the ''Armageddon'' reference from GenreSavvy Colonel O'Neill. In a twist it was revealed that the asteroid was not a natural phenomenon, but a way for Anubis to get around the Protected Planets Treaty. ''Shockingly'', blowing the asteroid up was not the answer, as the asteroid in question was [[MadeOfExplodium specifically chosen]] by Anubis so that blowing it up [[EarthShatteringKaboom would just make things worse]]. Unfortunately, SG-1 was stuck with a [[WireDilemma very poorly-designed bomb]].* The Centauri use illegal mass driver weapons to drop asteroids on [[spoiler:the Narn homeworld]] in a ''Series/BabylonFive'' episode.** This is considered so heineous, that even the Vorlons issue a formal statement decrying the act. The Vorlons whose foreign policy consists of "''We take no interest in the affairs of others.''"*** The Vorlons themselves get over it later, [[DoomsdayDevice by introducing planet-killing ships of their own]] at the climax of the last Shadow War.* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' falls back on this every so often. The first time, four HumongousMecha pushed the asteroid far enough off-course to miss Earth. The other three times, it was blown up. And then, there was a literal colony drop: at the end of Lost Galaxy, the BigBad reactivates the largest dome of the massive space colony and aims it at the settlement on the planet.* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "Frontios" featured the Tractators, who created meteor showers to try to rid the eponymous planet of its human inhabitants, although this is more of a "Colony Pull", as the Tractators were already on the planet underground and were using their gravity-controlling abilities to pull the asteroids onto the planet.* Heroic reversal in ''CaptainPowerAndTheSoldiersOfTheFuture'': one half of Lord Dread's Project New Order involved capturing the human population with an orbital Digitizer, the space station ''[[PropheticName Icarus]]''. Power and his team infiltrate the BigBad's base and hack into ''Icarus''' ground control, forcing it down from orbit and on a collision course with Dread's capital city, Volcania.[[/folder]][[folder:Music]]* "Greg! The Stop Sign!" by Music/{{TISM}}:--> ''Sometime in the next ten thousand years''\\''A comet's gonna wipe out all trace of man''\\''I'm banking on it coming before''\\''My end-of-year exam.''[[/folder]][[folder:Tabletop Games]]* Like any other method of causing massive destruction, the Colony Drop is gleefully utilized in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. [[CrazyAwesome Naturally]], da Orks take it to the utter screaming extreme; they grab an asteroid, put engines and weapons and armor on it and fill it with Orks and ram it full speed into a planet. It doesn't matter if it turns out to be a transport or just a missile, it's served it's purpose of making a big boom.** An issue of the Games Workshop magazine ''White Dwarf'' contains a very funny debunking of the idea that doing this to a planet would be cheaper and easier than the usual ''[[EarthShatteringKaboom Exterminatus]]'' methods. It was originally found online and can be found quoted [[http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?p=2392357#p2392357 here]].** Roks were fitted with teleporters in the Third War of Armageddon. So, not only was there a Colony Drop, but there was then an asteroid sitting in an impact crater, spewing out wave after wave of reinforcements, without needing vulnerable dropships.* The apocalypse in the {{backstory}} of ''{{Traveller}}: The New Era'' is implied to have included (among every other way a [[AIIsACrapshoot homicidal malfunctioning computer]] can seriously ruin your day) many examples of literal Colony Drops.* The backstory for ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}} 2020'' includes a short orbital war between the US and the EU, ending when the EU-controlled lunar massdriver was used to lob a substantial lump of rock at Washington DC. The rock was deflected by orbital defences, and instead hit Colorado Springs (or, as it became known afterwards, "Colorado ''Sprung''")* The spell "Cometfall" in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' does ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.* ''MagicTheGathering'' has the spells Meteor Shower, Meteor Storm, Shivan Meteor, and Comet Storm. All of these are very effective at killing stuff.* TabletopGame/YuGiOh has the card [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Meteor_of_Destruction Meteor of Destruction]], which knocks off 1000 of your opponents Life Points, provided they have at least 3000.** It also has [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Jurrac_Meteor Jurrac Meteor]], which clears the field (including itself) when it's first brought out. It's based off the Chicxulub asteroid (the one that killed the dinosaurs), and is a dinosaur itself.[[/folder]][[folder:Video Games]]* ''SinsOfASolarEmpire'' has the Advent starbase meteoroid control signature ability, which allows it to use the crew's PsychicPowers to rams asteroids onto hostile planets being orbited or dropping entire swarms of small asteroids onto enemy fleets.* [=RyuKoOh's=] second attack in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha'' and ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration OriginalGeneration 2]]'' is the simple but brutal method of dropping a small mountain on the enemy. In ''Alpha 3'', it's MidSeasonUpgrade drops even bigger ones.* ''Fragile Allegiance'', a strategy game focused on mining asteroid fields for minerals, allows this tactic in two forms. The lesser involves building a device capable of launching lumps of minerals from one asteroid to another, the kicker being that any asteroid without a corresponding receiving device that a lump lands on gets wrecked. Far more interesting, however, is mounting engines on one asteroid and smashing it into another, obliterating both.* In the Space Stage of VideoGame/{{Spore}}, there is a tool called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Call Asteroid]]. It is "Supposed" to be used to [[UselessUsefulSpell improve the Terra Score of a planet]], but it is far more useful to drop asteroids onto enemy colonies. On top of that, it is cheaper to use than AntiMatter bombs which serve the same purpose.* ''VideoGame/{{Defender}}'' (TheRemake, not the original) had a mission like this at the end. [[spoiler:The Earth is found to have been offensively terraformed by the aliens, all the way through. Your mission is to defend the power plants on the moon that are running the gigantic engines pushing it towards the Earth.]]* ''[[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters King Of Fighters 2001]]'' has this once you defeat the Lovable [[SNKBoss Ig]][[NorioWakamoto niz]]. He has a huge [[AGodAmI god complex]], but once you beat him, he decides to become a demon and attempts a colony drop. It fails, miserably.* ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars'' has Siege Drivers, the ultimate mass driver weapon. They're so huge only specially designed dreadnoughts can carry them, have infinite range on the tactical map, and cause 150 million casualties ''per shot''. The human version looks like a giant revolver with the barrel rotating after each shot.* In ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'', [[VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness Laharl]]'s ultimate attack combines this with RidingTheBomb (and his EvilLaugh). It is aptly named Meteor Impact.** There's also the Meteor Lancer spear skill in ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 4| A Promise Unforgotten}}'', which has the user leap into outer space, gather some meteors into the shape of gigantic lance, then throw it at the targets.* The ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series have the spells Comet and Meteor appear in several games. ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' even uses its use as a plot point, being the means by which [[BigBad Sephiroth]] would use to try and worm his way into TheLifestream and attain godhood. This was a distinctly odd example in that Meteor actually fell quite slowly; in fact slower than the planet's gravity should have made possible. The implication seems to be that, as Meteor was magical in nature, it wouldn't merely collide with the planet and create a crater, but ''bore through it and come out the other side''.** The ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' series has a few examples, too; notable, considering it's a real-time fighting game. Sephiroth can use the Black Materia to summon the aforementioned meteor to attack his opponent, and the Emperor has a much more visually impressive ([[DeathOrGloryAttack though heavily telegraphed]]) version in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpYR_PeF2ew&t=8s Starfall.]]* ''[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberiumWars Command & Conquer: Kane's Wrath]]'' features an example of this: the Scrin can throw a Tiberium meteor with the Special Power named "Overlord's Wrath"* The bad guys in ''HeavyGear II'' try to do this, after simply dropping big bombs alone stopped working.* ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'' had the "Rains of Destruction", a deadly shower of GreenRocks from the Moons orbiting the world that wiped out almost all of civilisation and set humanity back from space-faring to just getting the hang of electricity again when the story begins.** There's also the "Prophecy" special attack, [[SlapOnTheWristNuke which has slightly less impressive aftereffects for consisting of dropping a whole friggin' moon]].* In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime 3'', the Pirates and Dark Samus drop Leviathans -- sentient Phazon asteroids, each with a BigBad inside -- on four planets, including their own. It's also implied that [[spoiler:the planet Phaaze]] was responsible for dropping two more on Tallon IV and Aether in the previous two games.** The one on Elysia is particularly bad, as there is no way to get down into the planet's atmosphere to disarm the shield. [[spoiler: The solution? Spend a few hours converting sections of [=SkyTown=] into a gargantuan nuclear weapon and countering Dark Samus' ColonyDrop ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome with one of your own!]]'']]* In ''VideoGame/AdventRising'', the Seekers (bad guys) destroy the hero's home world by dropping asteroids on it.-->"They are coming to destroy the planet."\\"What? How?"\\"They throw rocks."\\"''Rocks?'' They throw ''rocks?''"\\"Asteroids."* In the the downloadable ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' mission "Bring Down the Sky", [[PlayerCharacter Commander Shepard]] has to prevent a group of alien terrorists from dropping an asteroid on an Eden-like colony world. In this case it's also a literal colony drop, as the asteroid itself has a scientific research colony on it.** In the ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' DLC Arrival, an asteroid is used to [[spoiler: destroy a mass relay, and in the process destroys a star system.]]* A level of ''[[VideoGame/KatamariDamacy We Love Katamari]]'' requires The Prince to roll up all the countries on Earth to stop a meteor from... destroying all countries on Earth. This foreign object hurtling through space will be, alternately, a big meteor, a bigger and spiky meteor, or the Prince's very own Space Mushroom planetoid. (Somebody ''really'' dropped the ball on that one. One of the quickest ways to lose fans is to send them hurtling towards Earth and incinerating them.)* The ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic'' series [[spoiler:frequently]] does this.* ''[[VideoGame/NintendoWars Advance Wars]]'' has Sturm's CO/Super Power, Meteor Strike, which drops a 3x3 meteor on the most expensive cluster of enemy units for 8 damage. In the comedy sketches on Youtube, it gets changed to dropping a Sturm clone on someone.* ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' has the Meteor summon, which drops a meteor on the opponent. Megiddo, the special ability of the Sol Blade, does the same thing with ''the sun''--and ''you hit it at them with your sword.''* ''VideoGame/AceCombat'' plays this straight with the Ulysses asteroid, then plays with it in that all of the technology created to stop the impact sparks off wars and causes ''more'' damage than the chunks of the asteroid that made it through. Also played straight when the Belkans try to drop the [[KillSat SOLG]] on the capital of Osea in ''{{VideoGame/Ace Combat 5|TheUnsungWar}}''.** ''VideoGame/AceCombat04ShatteredSkies'' has a variant with one of those aforementioned bits of technology created to stop Ulysses, which is turned into a superweapon by... firing it at bits of the asteroid still in orbit around the planet, which causes them to fall to earth and destroy whatever they hit.* In ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'', when the player is escaping the Peragus mining facility, the whole thing blows up when either the Sith or the player fires on the asteroids. This was the only source of fuel for a station hovering over another planet, Telos. Later on, you can get a Hutt on Nar Shaddaa to send fuel to the station.* In ''VideoGame/JetForceGemini'', there is an asteroid directed by Mizar to crash into the Earth.* In ''VideoGame/GalacticCivilizations'' the "Mass Driver" invasion type involves bombarding the planet with asteroids beforehand.* ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork 4'' has a giant asteroid that turns out to be computer-controlled. The Navi operating it, Duo, wants to destroy Earth because it is a wicked planet. Mega Man stops the asteroid and convinces Duo to leave Earth alone for a while.** ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce 3'' uses the same plot with Meteor G, a giant meteor made of crystallized "[[TheCorruption noise]]." Not only is it headed for Earth, but it's interfering with wireless devices and corrupting wave beings. Geo and Omega-Xis later learn that [[spoiler:Geo's father Kelvin, in wave form, has been holding the meteor back since the day the space station Peace was destroyed.]]* ''VideoGame/TheDig'' uses the threat of this as the CallToAdventure, when a large asteroid shows up out of nowhere in Earth orbit and threatens to crash into the planet. It's actually a disguised spaceship sent by SufficientlyAdvancedAliens to see if we've developed sufficient spacefaring capabilities to go up there and stop it; having done so, the astronauts in question are subsequently whisked away to the aliens' [[LateToTheTragedy long-deserted]] planet.* ''VideoGame/TheBabylonProject'': In one level of The Earth-Brakiri War, just after getting to an abandoned Space Station, you discover an asteroid on a collision course with the station (in a region of space devoid of asteroids and full of mines), and have to go destroy it.* One of the ways to invade a planet in ''VideoGame/GalacticCivilizations'' is to attach engines to asteroids and slam them into the world before landing troops. This seriously weakens the defenders but also permanently lowers the planetary quality.* ''{{Earth 2150}}'' has the Lunar Corporation's WeatherControlMachine being outfitted with an asteroid targeting system as the planet's decaying orbit evaporates surface water to the point the machine can no longer influence weather. In gameplay terms, that means the LC can call in meteor showers instead of lightning storms in volcanic and lunar tilesets. And unlike lightning, meteors can '''NOT''' be stopped by DeflectorShields and no longer ignore buildings in favor of high hills. Each meteor does a fuckton of damage (enough to insta-kill most units and severely damage buildings) but scatter randomly over a very large area. Still, a minute-long carpet-bombing of asteroids is much more [[RuleOfCool awesome to watch]] than a nuke. Even better: the WCM is the cheapest superweapon in the game and only needs base power to operate so given enough money, you can build dozens of the sucker [[MoreDakka fire them all simultaneously]].** It gets even better in ''The Moon Project'' where [[Awesome/VideoGameLevels one mission]] has the Fang being outfitted with the targeting system's prototype. Every two minutes or so, the game calls in a '''triple''' barrage of asteroids on the Fang's location. You have one objective: [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer complete destruction of all four UCS bases on the map]] and since the whole LC campaign plays out on the Moon, collateral damage is not an issue. Apocalypse [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome does not even BEGIN to describe it]].* [[AngryBirds Angry Birds Space]] is largely made of this. It is rather satisfying to drop a massive asteroid onto those bloody pigs.* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' includes a fantasy version of this. Baar Dau, a moonlet originating in Oblivion, was stopped from impacting the city of Vivec by the god Vivec. It hovered over the city for centuries as a prison for heretics. After Vivec disappeared and the stop-gap measure implemented by the Temple to keep it in orbit was destroyed, the moonlet resumed its fall as though it had never stopped. Vivec (the city) was destroyed, the Red Mountain erupted, the mainland of Morrowind was devastated by tsunamis, and to this day, the crater/bay that now lies where Vivec used to be still has its waters boiling.* Averting this trope is your objective in the adventure game ''The Omega Stone'', in which a comet is on a collision course for Earth.* One of the disasters in ''Videogame/SimCity 4'' is a meteor strike. Which you, [[UltimateAuthorityMayor as Mayor]], can [[VideogameCrueltyPotential inflict on your hapless citizens any time you want.]]* The original ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld}}'' has a variant, in which the asteroid is thrown at the player's mothership, and the DangerouslyGenreSavvy BigBad added an escort fleet.* The backstory of ''VideoGame/{{Allegiance}}'' is that, by 2140, [[AsteroidMiners asteroid mining]] has become a profitable business. It's done by launching asteroids in the Belt towards the Lunar catching station and mining it on location. Unfortunately, a rather large asteroid ends up missing the station and hits Earth. The game takes place AfterTheEnd.* Part of ''VideoGame/PlanetaryAnnihilation'' appears to be building bases on asteroids so you can crash them into planets.* The TowerDefense game ''VideoGame/CanterlotSiege'' has Twilight Sparkle rain comets on enemies as her super power.* TheReveal of ''MysteriousJourney II'' explains that [[spoiler: instead of an alien ship being shot down by rival factions of planet Saarpedon, starting a war against the faction who wanted alien contact; personnel of the orbiting space station who wanted to leave the planet "mostly untouched" in its terraforming process, started a firefight that downed an orbiting ship containing the colonists in suspended animation, with no clear knowledge if it was accidental or not. Fortunately, the sentient "oracles" noticed this and mindwiped the population to prevent this terrible truth from being lived with.]][[/folder]][[folder:Web Comics]]* Played with in ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'', where [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff100/fv00044.htm ice asteroids]] are ''routinely'' dropped on the colonized planet as part of the {{terraform}}ation process. (Also done in ''The Stone Canal'', part of Creator/{{Ken MacLeod}}'s Literature/FallRevolution series). Two robots also mention digging a river with asteroids. And while they were at it, timing and sequencing the asteroids to produce a rhythm...-->'''Dvorak:''' Ah, yes. Orbital bombardment in D minor.\\'''Sawtooth:''' It's not often you get to play an entire planet as a percussion instrument.* In ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', [[TheBattlestar Battleplates]] were originally developed by the [[OneWorldOrder UNS]] to prevent the natural impact of meteorites on human worlds. Once the UNS realized that the Battleplate was also excellently able to deflect some other things that might threaten Earth, like the ''intentional'' impact of meteorites and other celestial bodies of a similar size and higher acceleration, and decided they'd better build a few dozens of them. You know, just in case. And as long as there's no pesky rocks that need to be swatted, well, there are many other uses you can put a several-kilometre long warship with grotesquely overpowered gravitics control to...** And by "several kilometers long," think of an equilateral triangle 1,000 meters thick and 8,000 meters on each side. That's one of the smaller ones. ** This is also the reason for their ThemeNaming - with names like Tunguska, Morokweng & Vredefort, they are all named after significant earth impact events too.* In ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'' this is how [[spoiler:Future Bass and Future Mega Man]] try to defeat [[spoiler:Bob]] when he [[spoiler:becomes the villain in the fifth Mega Man game]]. It doesn't work though, because he just [[spoiler:blows the whole thing up]].* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': If the [[ChessMotifs White King loses on the Battlefield]] ([[YouCantFightFate which he is always destined to]]), the Black King (or [[spoiler:[[BigBad Jack Noir]]]] in this case) initiates the Reckoning, which takes the asteroids which comprise the Veil and sends them flying toward Skaia and the Battlefield with the intent of destroying it. Skaia's defence mechanism opens portals to Earth (or whatever planet the players in question come from) at various points in its history, in the process [[StableTimeLoop setting up some of the parameters of the game, including the players]]. The majority of the asteroids sent to the players' planet arrive around the time the game starts being played, or April 13 2009 in the case of [[spoiler:Beta]] Earth, which amounts more or less to [[ApocalypseHow the end of the world]]; the entire point is to end mankind as Earth has served its purpose. All of the player's homes in particular are menaced by an incoming meteorite, requiring them to enter the game and start the adventure before it strikes; the largest one menaced [[spoiler:Jade's home somewhere in the Pacific Ocean]] shortly before she entered, and [[spoiler:[[PhysicalGod Becquerel's]] blast to destroy it was so powerful that its shockwaves]] were more or less the last nail in the coffin for Earth. Eventually, Skaia runs out of defense portals, so players in the game have to defeat the Black King before the [[BossArenaUrgency Battlefield is destroyed]].[[/folder]][[folder:Web Original]]* In ''Series/{{Noob}}'', Gaea has a SummonMagic spell that lets her make a small asteroid crash on her opponents. The area of damage is usually implied to be not that much larger than the asteroid's radius, making it a case of ArtisticLicensePhysics semi-justified by the fact that the story is set in a FictionalVideoGame.** In ''Film/NoobLeConseilDesTroisFactions'', [[spoiler:the end scene has Arth�on announce that he set an asteroid to crash on Olydri in ten days, whith the intention of completely destroying it. That one may have the completely opposite problem, as the last shot of the movie shows it to be close enough to Olydri for both to be in the same shot and still have Olydri seem much bigger; that hints that it may not be falling fast enough to do the damage it's supposed to do]].[[/folder]][[folder:Western Animation]]* Parodied in one episode of ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'', where the guys from Planet Express must stop a big ball of garbage from splattering against New New York.* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' - Vandal Savage holds the world hostage with an asteroid-firing railgun.* Inverted in the second ''[[TMNT2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' series, where time-travelling demon Savanti Romero threathens the future by trying to make the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs miss Earth. The turtles' mission, thus, is to assure that the colony drop happens.* In ''TheMagicSchoolBus'' episode "Out of this World", the class stops an asteroid from hitting their school. Ultimately, they make the bus planet-sized, draw the asteroid into an orbit, and then return to normal size at just the right moment to send the asteroid [[HurlItIntoTheSun on a collision course with the sun]].* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'', time-travelling villain Chronos punishes Chucko for his betrayal by sending him back to the moment where the dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid. Chucko's last words are "Oh, phooey."-->'''Chronos:''' Do you know what killed the dinosaurs?\\'''Ghoul:''' No...sir.\\'''Chronos:''' Well ''Chucko'' does.* In the ''Series/MonstersVsAliens'' episode "The Beast From 20,000 Gallons", an asteroid (which Dr. Cockroach has named [[FluffyTheTerrible Big Ned]]) is headed for a collision course for Earth. An attempt to blow it up with a rocket is complicated when B.O.B. ends up inside the rocket.[[/folder]][[folder:Real Life]]* Sixty-five million years ago, an asteroid struck the Earth in the Yucatan Peninsula. Not only did this asteroid wipe out all of the non-avian dinosaurs on Earth at this time, but it killed a good portion of life on Earth, including the pterosaurs, the sea reptiles (mosasaurs and plesiosaurs), the main reef builders, some of the crocodilians, a lot of the plants, etc. Mammals are thought to have barely gotten through the extinction with the skin of their teeth.** Or the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian-Triassic_extinction_event Permian-Triassic extinction event]] 250 million years ago, it [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt definitely]] dwarfs the above one. One of the probable causes? Whatever created [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Antarctica_Map_Wilkes_L_Crater.png this]] crater, speculated to be an asteroid '''''over 55 kilometres across''''' (by comparison, the asteroid that landed in Yucatan was "merely" 10 kilometres across). This is truly a ColonyDrop of [[ApocalypseWow epic]] proportions.*** Note, however, that there are several other highly credible explanations for the P-T event, most notably the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_Traps Siberian Traps]]. It's likely that it was the two together caused the changes that killed off so much life.** Now that the Yucatan evidence has largely substantiated the K-T collision for dinosaurs' extinction, the notion that other extinction events or disruptions of climate could be a result of other, smaller-scale impacts has become somewhat more acceptable.** It is theorised that the cause of the Late Devonian Extinction was ''multiple'' asteroid impacts.* Astronomers got to observe this type of ColonyDrop firsthand (but, luckily, at a distance) in 1994, when the fragmented pieces of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter. If this would have hit Earth, the impact would have been greater than the above two combined.* Although of a smaller scale than most fictional examples, meteorites play this trope straight. Documented cases of them killing people or destroying property on impact bring a new dimension to bad luck, considering the odds against it.** Though, if it ''doesn't'' hit you, large meteorites can sell for a tremendous amount of money. One woman in the 1970's had her car totaled when a watermelon-sized meteorite caved in its roof. She sold it, and was able to buy a new car, and still have a fair amount of money left over.* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynvKWYvyCqw This prank]] involving [[NoodleImplements an HD tv replacing a window and a fake job interview]]. [[/folder]]!!Moons[[folder:Comic Books]]* The Marvel Graphic Novel ''The Futurians'' has this as part of the backstory. In Earth's distant future, there are two major powers, locked in near-constant war: the city-states of Ghron and Terminus. Ghron developed a weapon called the Sky-Grabber, and used it to pull ''the moon'' towards the Earth so as to collide with Terminus. Terminus survived thanks to an extremely powerful forcefield, and is self-sufficient enough to live in total isolation for centuries, but 95% of all other life on the entire hemisphere Terminus is situated on died. Ghron was no worse for the wear, being located on almost the exact opposite side of the planet, though obviously there was some embarrassment that such a huge endeavor ended in failure. So they [[spoiler:fled to the past and tampered with the sun just to spite Terminus.]]* In the ''SonicTheComic'' story "Return of the Nightmare", [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Super]] [[EnemyWithout Sonic]] pulls Mobius' moon out of it's orbit and sends it crashing into the planet... in what turns out to be an illusion created by Ebony.[[/folder]][[folder:Literature]]* The Achuultani in ''Literature/EmpireFromTheAshes'' are big fans of this. [[CoolStarship Dahak]] speculates that they were responsible for the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. In the second book, Achuultani scouts steal [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iapetus_%28moon%29 Iapetus]] from Saturn, cover it with {{deflector shield}}s, and throw it at Earth, using their own ships to further shield it.* Pug uses a moon to attack a ''single creature'' in ''TheRiftwarCycle'', by opening a wormhole-like rift connecting a point just in front of the moon's path to a point just above the creature in question. HilarityEnsues. To be fair, the creature [[spoiler:had already destroyed two '''dimensions''', and Kelewan was doomed even before the EarthShatteringKaboom]].* In the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse's ''Literature/NewJediOrder'' series, the new enemy, an extremely xenophobic machine-hating race called the Yuuzhan Vong, are introduced by using their ships' gravity controlling features to smash a planet apart with its own moon. Among those killed is [[spoiler: Chewbacca. They later duplicate it during their successful invasion of Coruscant, using the planet's orbital defense stations.]]** The Yuuzhan Vong actually have a name for this tactic: Yo'Gand's Core. Supplemental material indicates that overuse of this tactic in a war in their home galaxy is why they spent hundreds or thousands of years travelling to a new one.[[/folder]][[folder:Toys]]* Non-Earth example: In ''{{Bionicle}}'', [[spoiler: Makuta Teridax is killed when the planet-sized robot he's inhabiting has one of the moons of Bara Magna smash into his head. He was trying to invoke this trope by slamming it into the planet in a destructive manner, whereas Mata Nui was trying to gently merge the planet and moons together.]][[/folder]][[folder:Tabletop Games]]* The D20 fantasy setting ''DragonMech'' is in the middle of having its moon descend upon the planet. This is quite possibly the worst thing to happen to the world of Highpoint in a very long time, given that it's ''already'' destroyed the societies of several different races and it hasn't actually hit yet.[[/folder]][[folder:Video Games]]* In ''VideoGame/DeadSpace3'', [[spoiler:it turns out that the moon in orbit around Tau Volantis is a gigantic necromorph. Isaac manages to kill it, at which point it falls onto the planet. The ''Awakened'' DLC reveals that both Isaac Clarke and John Carver ''somehow'' survived the impact, which confuses the two of them as much as it does the player. Isaac guesses the alien {{Phlebotinum}} they used to kill the moon had something to do with it. Carver thinks that's a stupid idea, but he can't come up with a better explanation.]]* ''VideoGame/TheLastFederation'' Hydral homeworld was destroyed when Evucks send a moon into collision course with it.[[/folder]][[folder:Webcomics]]* In Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}, the BigBad cuts the moon loose from Prospit, sending it crashing to Skaia below [[spoiler: and [[TearJerker killing Dream Jade]].]]* In the distant past of ''{{Drowtales}}'' the [[AbusivePrecursors elves]] apparently managed to take a piece out of one of the nine moons, and the resulting impact from one of the pieces hitting the planet is implied to have created the underworld where the story is set. The city of Sha'shi contains the most complete fragment of this piece of the moon, and it's implied that something about the moon is responsible for the elves mutating into drow and the reason that later generations have a higher rate of health problems.[[/folder]][[folder:Web Original]]* A rogue moon in ''TheGunganCouncil'' crashed into Taris [[spoiler:on Xyra's command]], wiping out everything on the planet's surface.[[/folder]][[folder:Real Life]]* Phobos is one of Mars's moons. Its orbit is slowly weakening, and in about 11 million years, it will either collide with Mars's surface or break apart.** A recent hypothesis to explain one of the most mysterious features of Mars (its northern hemisphere is significantly smoother and about a mile lower in average elevation than its southern hemisphere) is that ''nearly the entire northern hemisphere is an impact crater'' from an object slightly smaller than Earth's moon. The same impact might also be the reason why Mars no longer has an oxygen-rich atmosphere, which it likely did a few billion years ago.* Neptune's largest moon, [[TheMoonsOfNeptune Triton]], is in a similar degrading orbit, but due to its size it will take much longer for it to hit the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche_limit Roche limit]] (about 3.6 billion years) than Phobos.[[/folder]]!!THE Moon[[folder:Anime & Manga]]* ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' has this in the nebulous {{backstory}}, where the Crimson Moon (the guy) tried to drop the Moon onto the Earth only to be stopped by the then-young Zelretch. Zelretch pulled him to an alternate reality and [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu dropped the moon on him instead.]]** In BattleMoonWars, one of the attack Warcueid uses is also a moondrop. And yes, Arcueid can really do that in canon; she did something similar in ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood''.*** And in the [[BeachEpisode Volleyball match]] in episode 2 of ''Anime/CarnivalPhantasm'', there it was [[CrowningMomentOfFunny played for laughs.]]* Dropping the Moon on Earth is the Anti-Spiral's failsafe plan for eliminating humanity if it looks like they're getting too uppity in ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''.** Though technically speaking, it was actually [[spoiler:the battleship Cathedral Terra that was transformed into a moon.]] On the other hand, ''Lagann-hen'' successfully ups that by having the Moon [[spoiler:transform into [[HumongousMecha Cathedral Lazengann]] and try to '''[[MegatonPunch punch]] the Earth'''.]] [[CrazyAwesome Yes.]]* A moon drop is used as part of a sequence of StockVisualMetaphors in ''SetoNoHanayome''. Yes, Amazoness!* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', kind of. It's more a constant rock shower from ''pieces'' of the moon after it got torn open by the Gate Accident, and the main reason why humanity has abandoned Earth.* In episode 2 of the ''PrettySammy'', Bif Standard attempts to drop the Moon on Earth, so that he can build his own "standardized" world.* The whole point of Naruto7TheLast is stopping the moon from crashing into Earth.* In ''Anime/AldnoahZero'', much like the example in ''Cowboy Bebop'' above, a [[TeleporterAccident catastrophic malfunction]] of the [[CoolGate Hypergate]] blew the Moon to pieces, bringing an abrupt end to the first Terran-Martian war. The event, known as Heaven's Fall, sent enormous pieces of debris crashing down to Earth, killing hundreds of millions and [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BsDDoqNCEAA6b7c.png:large permanently altering the planet's geography]].[[/folder]][[folder:Board Games]]* What's this? ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_2210_AD Risk 2210 AD]]'' has the moon as a playable map '''and''' gives you several blank cards for HouseRules? Sounds fun. Who wants to play a game?** [[WarGames How about a nice game of chess?]]* In ''NetRunner'', normally the corporation can target the hackers with goons and hit squads, which deal two or three damage out of the hacker's five live points. A corp willing to [[UpToEleven go that extra mile]] can use the card "I Got A Rock", which drops an ''asteroid'' on the hacker for [[NoKillLikeOverkill a total of fifteen damage]].[[/folder]][[folder:Comic Books]]* In ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'', when the [[BigBad leader of the Black Moon]] is defeated, his vengeance consists of dropping the moon onto the planet over about a week.* In the ''Justice League'' story "Terror Incognita" the Martian Manhunter is confronting dozens of powerful White Martians on the Moon after those same White Martians have all but conquered Earth. While The Manhunter has them distracted the rest of the Justice League pulls the moon toward Earth so that the entry into the atmosphere will burn the Martians to nothingness if they do not surrender and enter the Phantom Zone. Spell Casters cast a massive spell to keep the gravity of the Moon from destroying Earth, and the Justice League (after imprisoning the surrendering White Martians) pulls the moon away from Earth before it can impact and destroy the planet.* In the final arc of ''{{Bionicle}}'', [[spoiler:this is how they finally get rid of [[BigBad Makuta]] [[MagnificentBastard Teridax]].]][[/folder]][[folder:Fan Works]]* A Rule34 fan comic of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' ended with the Princess Yue, Sokka's old squeeze turned Moon Spirit, getting turned on by the naughty activities the main cast gets into and, well, decides to come on down ''as the Moon itself'' and join the fun. [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Yeah...]][[/folder]][[folder:Film]]* In the recent film incarnation of Wells' ''[[Film/TheTimeMachine2002 The Time Machine]]'', the extinction of most of humanity, leading to the Eloi and Morlocks evolving, is caused by lunar colony construction causing the moon to break apart.* In the '80s remake of ''Film/FlashGordon'', Ming the Merciless is sending the moon spiraling down into the Earth. It doesn't get there, but it gets close enough that things must have been pretty messed up.-->'''Doctor Hans Zarkov''': Check the angular vector of the moon![[/folder]][[folder:Literature]]* In the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse book ''Vector Prime'', [[spoiler:it took a falling ''moon'' to kill off Chewbacca.]]* Creator/NeilGaiman's ''Film/TheMatrix'' short story, ''Goliath'', had [[spoiler:inexplicably pissy aliens follow one of the Machines' "seed-probes" back to Earth. The aliens begin dropping rocks and warn that if the Machines do not surrender immediately, they'll drop the moon on them.]]* One of Creator/LarryNiven's prehistoric ''Literature/TheMagicGoesAway'' stories featured a group of magi seeking out a comatose god on a "mana"-starved Earth in the hope that he will be able to help them land the Moon on Earth. How big can it be, after all? The magi think this is a great idea and awaken the god using the mana left in the comatose worldwyrm of NorseMythology. The awakened god shows the relative sizes involved to the magi, who now realize that smashing the Moon into the Earth would be a bad thing, even though the god promises to remake them after. As the god awakens, he stretches up to grab the Moon with his hands and push against it, presumably to stop it from orbiting the Earth.* In the ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' storyline, Yawgm- er, The Lord of the Wastes is attempted to be killed by [[spoiler:Urza and Gerrard dropping the Null Moon, a storage facility for pure white mana, on him.]]* In the ''{{Nightside}}'' novels, John Taylor notices that the moon is absent from the skies when he visits an AfterTheEnd future, and theorizes that it's fallen and caused the devastation all around him. Twice subverted when [[spoiler:he A) finds out it was a war between himself and his mother, Lilith, that was to blame, and B) ultimately prevents it from happening.]]* The Last Survivors Series features a variation on this theme.[[/folder]][[folder:Live Action TV]]* In ''Three Moons Over Milford'', an asteroid has broken the Moon into three huge (and a number of much smaller) pieces and it is unknown when or if any of them will fall to Earth.* The first series finale of ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'', where [[spoiler:Mr Smith, Sarah's MagicalComputer, who is revealed to be from a race of]] alien sentient rocks attempts to smash the Moon into the Earth to free members of their species who are stuck in Earth's crust. The episode before also had The Trickster, the living embodment of Chaos remove from the Earth the person fated to stop a large meteorite naturally smashing into the planet.[[/folder]][[folder:Video Games]]* The whole point of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' is to prevent what may be the [[WeirdMoon creepiest]] [[BadMoonRising moon]] known to man from plowing into Clocktown and killing everybody in Termina. You get three days. Fortunately, you have the [[GroundhogDayLoop Ocarina of Time]] to help.** This Moon comes back in Hyrule Warriors as a weapon in certian cases. Link's [[spoiler:Great Fairy]] weapon has this as special attack. In one stage, the great fairy uses this to weaken Argorok, Young Link's Focus Spirit attack has him use the Fierce Deity Mask to ''cut the moon in half'' and characters can use the moon as a weapon when using a powered-up Hookshot to pull it down on the enemies!* In the DS game ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'', [[spoiler:the second week's game master Sho Minamimoto]] leaves a note saying "Any tree can drop an apple, I'll drop the freakin' moon!". He doesn't actually do it, it's just a note proving his insanity.** Joshua can actually drop the moon or some sort of astral body ([[FanNickname a.k.a. the Jesus Meteor]]) on your enemies with the right upgrades.* In ''VideoGame/DarkChronicle'':** When [[BigBad Griffon]] can no longer keep the [[OminousFloatingCastle Moon Flower Palace]] aloft, he sets it on a collision course with [[DoomedHometown Palm Brinks]]. It takes a HumongousMecha the size of a mountain to stop the impact. ** We learn the {{Precursors}} that created the three [[MacGuffin Atlamillia stones]] realized that bringing them all together would invariably [[AGodAmI corrupt their wielder with limitless power]]. Therefore, they rigged the stones to summon the Star of Destruction upon said person --namely, the Blue Moon itself. It's just [[NeglectfulPrecursors too bad for anyone else standing in the wielder's vicinity]].* The BigBad of ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 4| A Promise Unforgotten}}'' attempts to destroy the game's Netherworld in this fashion.** Amusingly, this is exactly what the Entei's team attack in ''VideoGame/DisgaeaDimension2'' accomplishes, via transforming itself into a chain which its partner uses to yank the moon out of orbit.* ''LittleBigAdventure II''.* In ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'', one of the special party skills is called Prophecy, where the party ''throws the Silver Moon at the enemy''.* Occurs several times in ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'', with the first one being a BrickJoke of sorts: you go past a screen that prominently displays the moon in the background, and a few screens later it falls on you and tries to kill you. It gets to the point of being a RunningGag: if the moon appears on screen, sooner or later it ''will'' try to kill you somehow.* In the DS game ''InfiniteSpace'', [[spoiler:during the Irvest Sector war, Kalymnos attempted to obliterate Najbaro by crashing its moon-equivalent, Monarho, to said planet]].* In ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns'' [[spoiler:Donkey Kong punches the moon into Tiki Tong's tower. DK isn't trying to destroy the world, only the tower, and the resulting explosion pops the moon back into place]].* In the ''[[SeriousSam Serious Sam 3: BFE]]'', [[spoiler:the game ends with Sam making it through the [[TimeMachine time-lock]] just as [[BigBad Mental]] crashes the moon into the Earth, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1oDkofzI-o obliterating it.]]]]* The TowerDefense game ''VideoGame/CanterlotSiege'' has Princess Luna drop the moon to attack enemies as a super power.[[/folder]][[folder:Web Original]]* [[HowToKillAMockingbird The only way to kill a mockingbird]] was by hitting it with the moon.* A RunningGag in ''TheDementedCartoonMovie'' is that when an object of any size crashes into the Moon, the Moon will fall and crash into the Earth, which then falls into the Sun if it doesn't just [[EarthShatteringKaboom explode]].* ''[[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]]'' for his review of ''SimCitySocieties'' had it to where {{God}} dropped the moon on him.* PlayedForLaughs in the ''FriendshipIsWitchcraft'' short "Star Waving Mad" in which Twilight gets bored of playing with the Moon and unceremoniously drops it on Ponyville.* [[DragonBall Vegeta]] tried this on [[SonicTheHedgehog Shadow]] in one DeathBattle. [[spoiler: Chaos Control put it back where it belong.]][[/folder]][[folder:Western Animation]]* In ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'', the villain tries to steal the Moon by using a prototype shrink ray to make it pocket sized. It turns out that the shrinking is not permanent and the shrunken Moon is now on Earth...** While they did managed to push moon back in space in time, it is implied that new orbit is much closer to Earth and may not be stable. * ''TheMoomins''.* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE.'': When the Drej blow up Earth, a piece of it shatters the Moon.* In ''MegasXLR'' Gorrath tried to ram the Moon into Earth by strapping a giant engine to it. Coop instead flip the engine so its tail end pointed down, blasting a huge crater into it. It permanently altered weather patterns on Earth.* In a WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory episode, Dexter launched a tractor rocket that moves the moon so he will gain strength from the rays of Saturn. But suddenly, the rocket gets broken so the moon will come crashing down into Earth, wreaking havoc by rolling across the city and then his laboratory.* In ''TheTick'', evil boy-genius Charles randomly gets the idea to smash the Moon into the Earth using a tractor beam, simply to demonstrate how smart and/or evil he is. It either doesn't occur to him that he will ''still be on the Earth'' when the Moon smashes it, or he simply doesn't care, because it the most evil thing he can think of.* In an Itchy & Scratchy show in TheSimpsons, Itchy takes Scratchy's tongue and ties it to a rocket. The rocket makes several circles to the moon, ties the tongue around it, and begins to fall. When Scratchy realizes that the moon is falling over him, he tries to hide inside a closet. [[/folder]][[folder:RealLife]]* It has been proposed that the impact of another planetary body with the Earth, that is believed to have formed the Moon, actually created ''two'' moons, that not much later (in astronomical terms) collided and merged.* Some astronomers have suggested that in the very far future, when the Sun becomes a red giant and it's about to engulf Earth, the interaction between the Moon and the Sun's distended atmosphere will cause it to spiral inwards until the Moon reaches the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche_limit Roche limit]], breaking up apart and forming a short-lived Saturn-like ring system around Earth.[[/folder]]!!Planets[[folder:Anime & Manga]]* ''{{Avenger}}'' deals with a dying colony on Mars that's about to be crashed into by one of the moons.* ''DieBuster'' inverts this: the human race plans to deal with an extremely powerful (and extremely large) Space Monster by dropping '''Earth''' onto it. Fortunately Nono shows up and stop this plan before dealing with the Space Monster herself.[[/folder]][[folder:Comics]]* The MarvelUniverse massive crossover ''InfinityGauntlet'' takes this one step further: The Celestials throw '''planets''' at Thanos.** Thanos himself later defeats an enemy by smashing two planets together in his face, along with a huge arsenal of nuclear bombs.* "Spaceman Spiff"[[note]]Read as "Calvin daydreaming"[[/note]] did it to solve a math problem for Calvin in ''Comicstrip/CalvinAndHobbes''. ItMakesSenseInContext.[[/folder]][[folder:Fan Fiction]]* In ''FanFic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40k'' Kaworu slams [[PlutoIsExpendable Pluto and Charon]] into [[spoiler:the moon to attack Lilith]]. [[/folder]][[folder:Film]]* In ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternFirstFlight'', Hal takes a page from Lensman below, crushing the Yellow Lantern Battery between two massive moons of some gas giant.* The follow-up movie, ''Film/GreenLanternEmeraldKnights'', has the Lanterns defeat their planet-sized antimatter enemy by hitting him with a planet, both of which are then crashed into the nearby star.* Lars Von Trier's ''{{Melancholia}}'' revolves around the planet of the title crashing into Earth, obliterating all life in the universe.[[/folder]][[folder:Literature]]* ''Literature/{{Lensman}}'' probably takes this to its most ridiculous extremes when they variously squash a planet between two planets (the "Nutcracker"), squash a planet between two planets moving ''faster than the speed of light'', and drop a planet sized load of ''antimatter'' on a planet. Oh, and "negaspheres", called that because in the 1940s the term "black hole" hadn't been coined yet. There's a ''reason'' we call it the LensmanArmsRace.* In Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter's "Sunstorm," it's discovered that the reason the Sun is going berzerk (soon to send out a 24-hour pulse of energy that will destroy life on Earth) is that thousands of years ago vastly powerful and paranoid aliens saw sentient life had developed on Earth, figured we'd eventually be a threat, and flung a Jupiter-sized planet into the Sun. The idea was that this caused instability in the Sun that would (thousands of years later) cause it to lash out and cook us. However, one does wonder why they didn't simply fling the gas giant at the Earth, thus saving time and solving the problem directly (and preventing the primitive humans from doing anything about it, unlike how things turned out).* Unique variant: In ''The Shattered World'', a fragment of a planet collides with a bigger, inhabited chunk of the '''same''' planet, causing massive death and destruction. This is possible because [[AWizardDidIt magicians intervened]] when their world was broken to bits a thousand years ago, and equipped the pieces of world with ArtificialGravity and a shared atmosphere. Unfortunately, the spells that keep the fragments safely confined in their orbits are wearing out, so this isn't the last ColonyDrop in the offing. [[spoiler: Also, a ColonyDrop strike by another planet, not the Necromancer, is what really shattered the world.]]* The Dwellers, from the [[Creator/IainBanks Iain M. Banks]] novel ''The Algebraist'', crank this UpToEleven: fuck with them and one day, though it may come far, far, '''far''' in the future, and they will throw a planet at your homeworld. Surrounded by moons, which are in turn surrounded by thousands of asteroids, which are ''in turn'' surrounded by millions of smaller chunks of rock. And the whole horrific mess is traveling at a sizable fraction of light-speed...* ''When Worlds Collide'', by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer. ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.[[/folder]][[folder:Live Action TV]]* This is done in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' special ''The End of Time'' when the [[spoiler:Master]] opens a link to [[spoiler: Gallifrey]], causing it to [[spoiler:materialise directly beside Earth.]] The two planets' gravity starts pulling them together.* Used rather unexpectedly in the series finale of ''{{Smallville}}'', with [[spoiler:Apokolips]] being summoned next to Earth, nearly colliding with it. [[spoiler:It is stopped by Clark/Superman pushing it away with his bare hands.]][[/folder]][[folder:Roleplay]]* ''Roleplay/DestroyTheGodmodder'': One of the players performed a special attack that lined up every planet in the solar system and ''slammed them all into Minecraft.'' The Battlefield was ''leveled.''[[/folder]][[folder:Toys]]* ''{{Bionicle}}'': [[spoiler:Makuta finds himself, while controlling Mata Nui's original body, on the receiving end when [[KarmicDeath Aqua Magna returns the favor]].]][[/folder]][[folder:Video Games]]* The point of ''TheGuardianLegend'' is to prevent this from happening to Earth. However, the planet that's zooming toward it is alive and filled with hostile life forms. Should the planets collide and somehow ''not'' destroy all life on Earth, the survivors would have to deal with all kinds of freaky MechanicalLifeforms and [[OrganicTechnology organic multi-legged things]] AfterTheEnd. Not fun at all.* ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory'' pulls this one, as the planet of Expel is destroyed by crashing into Energy Nede, a planet made out of PureEnergy and populated by one of the most ancient and knowledgeable races in the series' existence. Makes sense that their artificial planet would be powerful enough to vaporize anything else it hit. They never intended to hit anything anyway, but that's what bad guys are for...* The Tera Star spell in ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 4| A Promise Unforgotten}}'' drops most of the solar system on the target.* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' does this in the game's ending cinematic, wherein [[spoiler:the [[FloatingContinent floating planetoid]] of Cocoon is sent crashing down towards the lowerworld of Pulse after the game's [[DeusEstMachina god-like machines]]: the fal'Cie [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu are defeated]] with the death of their [[TheChessmaster leader]], Orphan.]]** Inevitably, [[StoryBoardingTheApocalypse this becomes part of the main plot]] for ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII-2''. Three quarters through the game, we learn that [[spoiler:Caius Ballad is responsible for causing the potential [[ApocalypseHow world-ending paradoxes]] that ultimately end in Cocoon's collision with Gran Pulse. He doesn't seem to mind living in a [[BadFuture cold, lifeless, crapsack of a future]], [[WhyYouShouldDestroyThePlanetEarth so long as he saves]] [[ApocalypseMaiden Yeul]] from falling victim to her own visions. Meanwhile, Noel, living in the same dull, lifeless future, travels back in time and works with Serah to resolve these paradoxes. [[YouCantFightFate Although the fall of Cocoon still manages to happen anyway]], they are able to give Hope enough time to construct a new Cocoon. Caius STILL tries to turn the launch into a disaster.]]* This was the Great Fall disaster that the heroes of ''VideoGame/TalesOfEternia'' are trying to avert.* In ''MakaiKingdom'', mere moments after Zetta finishes restoring his netherworld after accidentally incinerating it, Salome immediately crashes her own world into his.[[/folder]][[folder:Web Comics]]* [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds Done unintentionally]] in ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20030803.html here]].-->'''Ennesby:''' They crashed a gas giant.\\'''Tagon:''' You mean they crashed ''into'' a gas giant?\\'''Ennesby:''' They did that, too. They crashed one gas giant into another.** So not only did they destroy their gas giant colony planet and the planet it crashed into, they destroyed at least one other planet that got caught in the ensuing catastrophe and screwed up the ecosystem of the one planet in the system that actually had one.[[/folder]][[folder:Web Original]]* [[http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/12730648/images/1289268890462.png "Humanity, united, thinks this should be a big enough rock."]][[/folder]][[folder:Western Animation]]* WesternAnimation/InvaderZim discovers the planet Mars "looks unnatural, as if nature was not involved in its formation" and discovers it's a giant spaceship. He plans to roll it around on the surface of the Earth to squish the filthy Earthicans.-->'''Zim''': People of Earth, prepare to taste the mighty foot of my planet!* A close call with a "runaway planet hurtling between the Earth and the Moon" kicked off the collapse of civilization in the backstory to ''ThundarrTheBarbarian''. Neither Earth nor the Moon was struck, but the Moon cracked in half, while Earth suffered massive tsunami, quakes, etc.* In ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'', [[spoiler:Galavatron's plan in the series finale involved crashing Cybertron directly into earth.]][[/folder]][[folder:Real Life]]* One hypothesis about the Moon's formation is that it was produced by the ejecta thrown out from Earth as the result of a collision with a roughly Mars-sized body.[[/folder]]!!Stars[[folder:Anime & Manga]]* In the final arc of ''[[PrettySammy Magical Project S]]'', Romio attempts to send the Earth on a collision course with the sun.[[/folder]][[folder:Fanfiction]]* ''FanFic/{{Aurora}}'': At the story's climax, [[spoiler: the Princesses [[GodzillaThreshold decide to destroy the evacuated Canterlot in order to kill]] [[BigBad Dawnbringer]] and his army of monsters, which they accomplish by having Luna call down dozens of stars (which in this setting are "only" a few hundred feet in diameter each) like missiles in order to obliterate the city.]][[/folder]][[folder:Film]]* The sci-fi classic film ''Film/WhenWorldsCollide'' had a passing star smack into the Earth -- with the survivors taking refuge on a planet orbiting the star. In the 1930s novel on which the film was based, the Earth-destroyer was one of a pair of incoming rogue planets, with the second planet predicted to assume Earth's orbit after the boom.[[/folder]][[folder:Literature]]* The ''Literature/XeeleeSequence'' features the extreme colony drop option where a Neutron Star is accelerated to high fractional C and smashed into a Cosmic String.** Other examples ramp up the magnitude, including accelerating entire ''galaxies'' to use as projectiles. * In Creator/LarryNiven's ''A World Out of Time'', earth develops extrasolar colonies, and they eventually go to war. ''By throwing stars at each other.'' The one headed for earth misses, but makes the sun go red giant.* Archchancellor Ridcully of ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' reminisces about the time a star crash-landed near his family's estate in one of the ''Science of Discworld'' books. Of course, in his Verse, stars are balls of flaming rock only a few feet across, so it wasn't a particularly-destructive example.[[/folder]][[folder:Video Games]]* In SaGaFrontier2, The Egg's final form has a skill called Xenocide, where he'll throw ''the fucking sun'' at you! He'll use this skill every other round.* ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'': [[spoiler: Chakravartin's Basic projectiles in the first phase of the fight with him are both Planets and Stars, and even includes a Red Giant in his arsenal.]][[/folder]][[folder:Western Animation]]* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'', during the episode "The Revenge of Bruticus" when Onslaught attempts to fling the Earth into the Sun. Is it getting hot in here, or is it just me?[[/folder]]!!Terrestrial objects[[folder:Anime & Manga]]* ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'': [[spoiler: Yliaster's plan to destroy Neo Domino City and erase Momentum from history appears to involve dropping the [[OminousFloatingCastle Ark Cradle, a floating fortress]] [[TemporalParadox made from the ruins of the future Neo Domino City]], on it.]]* In ''Manga/OnePiece'' [[spoiler: Vander Decken, the infamous pirate captain with the powers of the Mato Mato (target target) fruit decides to kill the Mermaid Princess (who rejected him) by throwing a giant Ark at her.]]** The villain of the tenth movie, Shiki, can do this with battleships or entire islands.* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Radiosonde Castle was intended to be used in one of these to kill Touma and destroy Academy City.** And Touma crashed the Star of Bethlehem into the ArchangelGabriel.* ''Manga/HeavensLostProperty'', with [[MundaneMadeAwesome flu medicine]]. [[http://www.mangahere.com/manga/sora_no_otoshimono/v09/c051.4/8.html We wish we]] [[http://www.mangahere.com/manga/sora_no_otoshimono/v09/c051.4/9.html were kidding]].* In ''VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders: Dolores, i'', [[spoiler: Radium Lavans]] attempts to drop a space elevator on the earth by destroying the large mass at the top of it that is acting as an anchor. [[spoiler: Dolores prevents it by compressing the space between the earth and the moon to increase the moon's gravitational pull on the space elevator until enough mass can be added to keep it stable.]][[/folder]][[folder:Comics]]* In a comic series called ''ComicBook/{{Meridian}}'', a large number of the population lives on floating islands while the ground (At least most of it) is too heavily polluted. Naturally, the threat of a city-state falling down onto the ground is present.* In recent years, the {{Marvel}} version of Asgard, a mystical city-state, has hovered over the American Midwest. Recently, during the ComicBook/{{Siege}} storyarc, Asgard fell to the ground.* In an issue of [[SpiderMan The Spectacular Spider-Man]] in the 90's, Spidey and the original ComicBook/{{X-Men}} teamed-up against Professor Power who was in control of a [[OminousFloatingCastle floating castle]]. They defeat him and his {{Mooks}} but the castle is sent plummeting toward New York. Obviously, they stop it just in time.* Done by Knuckles, who punches a fault line near the Carnival Night Zone. Since the Carnival Night Zone was built on the edge of the Floating Island, Knuckles completely smashed off that portion of the Floating Island, removing the Carnival Night Zone from the island and sending it falling to Mobius, slightly cushioned by some remaining power of the Master Emerald. The crash-landing of the ruined Carnival Night Zone was a shock to one Emerald Hill boy who had just before wished that the Carnival Night Zone was closer then it crashes in front of him.** In the Sonic Adventure arc, in order to stop Chaos from absorbing the Chaos Emeralds, Knuckles hesitantly ejects them from the island, which without any power then crashes down into the sea.[[/folder]][[folder:Film]]* In the 2009 movie adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/AstroBoy'', the power goes out in the floating city during the climactic fight, which causes it to start falling. Astro slows down the fall enough to avoid a catastrophe.* The school in ''Film/SkyHigh'' has its floatation device disabled by Royal Pain. Will just barely manages to slow down the school long enough for his friends to fix the device and stop it from crushing a neighborhood.* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'', Lord Business and Bad Cop attack Cloudcuckooland with their aircraft (a FluffyCloudHeaven in this world), causing it to fall into the ocean. Only Emmet, his team, and Captain Metalbeard make it out--all of the other inhabitants are arrested or presumably perished in the waters below, as Bad Cop finds no signs of life after scouring the area.* In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', [[spoiler:Ultron can't get the nuclear codes to destroy humanity, so he transforms an entire city into a FloatingContinent powered by a vibranium reactor that he plans to raise up into orbit and drop on the earth to create an extinction level event]].[[/folder]][[folder:Literature]]* In ''Literature/GulliversTravels'', the Laputan emperor's ultimate punishment against wayward earthbound cities was to land his [[FloatingContinent floating island]] on them. However, this punishment is more of a controlled descent than a drop, or otherwise Laputa would be badly damaged. The Laputan emperor explains this as the love of his people being so great, he wishes to permit them every chance of survival.* Happened for every floating castle in the [[{{Dragaera}} Dragaeran Empire]] when sorcery stopped working at the beginning of the Interregnum.[[/folder]][[folder:Live Action TV]]* In ''Series/MyHero'' 6x08, "Believe", Thermoman accidently drops a village in Bavaria on another village, causing them to both catch fire and set alight to a third one. However, no-one actually gets hurt as Thermoman manages to rescue them all from his blunder, though they weren't overly grateful about it.[[/folder]][[folder:Music Video]]* The Music/{{Gorillaz}}' floating windmill ends up being shot down by pirates in the video for "El Manana".[[/folder]][[folder:Toys]]* ''{{Bionicle}}'': when [[spoiler:Mata Nui crashes onto Aqua Magna thanks to Makuta.]][[/folder]][[folder:Video Games]]* The destruction of Zeal in ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' results in the [[FloatingContinent floating kingdom]] falling from the sky. Between Lavos generally causing havoc and chunks of islands falling from near-orbit, the world is destroyed and flooded. [[UnexplainedRecovery It gets better, though]]. In fact, it's implied that the disaster is what ends the Ice Age, in the same way that Lavos's arrival started it... which qualifies for this trope as well.* In ''LufiaII'' [[spoiler: Doom Fortress was used to attempt to destroy Parcelyte as a last ditch effort by Daos.]]* In the [[MultipleEndings standard ending]] of ''VideoGame/CaveStory'', the entire [[FloatingContinent floating island]] crashes to the ground [[LoadBearingBoss after defeating the final boss]]. In the Good Ending, defeating the PerfectRunFinalBoss will save the island from falling.* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': In the double-decker city Midgar, one of the villains manages to drop a large section of the affluent layer of the city above onto the slums below, killing hundreds of people.* In ''VideoGame/SepterraCore'', the nation of Ankara uses this method to destroy its Shell 5 rival Janam, slamming the continent into the base of Shell 3.* The Solarian tethered sky colony Etrenank in ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'' [[spoiler:smashes into the surface and erupts into a nuclear fireball after Id shoots it down ForTheEvil]]. Its counterpart and rival Shevat [[spoiler:suffers a similar fate off-screen, but remains somewhat intact on the surface]].* In the ''VideoGame/ArcTheLad'' series, the Sky Castle rises and drops no less than 3 times. The first time causing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, subsequent falls are nowhere near as destructive because the plot says so.* [=RyuKohOh=] and it's derivatives in the ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha'' games typically have an attack that warps a small mountain directly above the enemy's head.* In the grand finale of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'', [[spoiler:Sky Fortress ''Bahamut'' is fatally damaged by the Undying's unrelenting assaults on it during the FinalBattle. The miles-and-miles-tall [[OminousFloatingCastle Floating]] [[EvilTowerOfOminousness Tower]] falls from the sky in a collision course with Rabanastre, to everyone's horror. Although the lowest bits crash into the city's [[DeflectorShields Paling]], it's obvious that this shield won't hold, and last-ditch, desperate actions are taken to ensure the city's survival, from [[HeroicSacrifice suicidally]] [[RammingAlwaysWorks ramming it away with a capital ship]], to staying behind to rig emergency power to its engines]].* After the end of ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'', the Ministry of Truth (which is in a fact a small moonlet that the Daedric Prince Sheogorath, [[ItMakesSenseInContext or possibly the moon itself with prompting for Sheogorath]], flung towards the planet from Oblivion but was stopped by Vivec) has the magical charms keeping it airborne deactivated and it comes crashing to the ground at the same speed as when it was first flung. The impact serves to also [[ChekhovsVolcano make the Red Mountain erupt]] and set off a further series of DisasterDominoes that makes most of Morrowind uninhabitable.* It's an odd example, as the city starts on the surface and then falls ''through'' the crust and [[spoiler: into the planet's poisonous-gas-filled yet oddly populated core]], but this is pretty much what happens to [[spoiler: Akzeriuth]] in ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss''.* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'', [[spoiler:Link invokes this trope by wishing to the Triforce to destroy The Imprisoned for good. It grants the wish by causing the statue of the Goddess in Skyloft to break off and fall, landing directly on the sealing pit just as The Imprisoned is breaking out of its seal, squishing it]].[[/folder]][[folder:Web Comics]]* In ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'' a pissed-off [[{{Jerkass}} Sarda]] teleports Black Mage away "to Hurt". BM ends up in the middle of the ocean, next to a sign reading "Welcome to Hurt, Australia". As he's wondering what an "Australia" is, the reader's view is pulled back so you can see the ''[[ShapedLikeItself Australia-shaped]] [[ShadowOfImpendingDoom shadow]]'' looming around him.[[/folder]][[folder:Web Original]]* The {{Neopets}} story arc 'The Faeries' Ruin' had an ''epic'' WhamEpisode which revealed that not only was [[spoiler:Xandra]] the villain, she just crashed Faerieland- that is, a giant floating city-state- [[http://images.neopets.com/faerieland/crash_fede37c686.jpg into Neopia.]]* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' a member of the Thanda, a group of Indian supervillains, [[WeaponizedTeleportation uses his teleportation powers]] to shift skyscrapers or small landmasses into orbit so that they fall on his targets.[[/folder]][[folder:Real Life]]* While not exactly a floating colony, earthquakes can cause enough ground disturbance to cause landslides, which if near a body of water, may cause a megatsunami. Such is the case with the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_megatsunami 1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami]], which caused waves over 1700 feet tall.[[/folder]]!!Others* In ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', this is the tactic of Sahaquiel, the massive tenth angel, dropping itself from the Earth's orbit to impact Tokyo 3.----